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. 2022 Apr 6;11(7):2044.
doi: 10.3390/jcm11072044.

Emotional Processing Profile in Patients with First Episode Schizophrenia: The Influence of Neurocognition

Verónica Romero-Ferreiro  1   2   3   4 , Lorena García-Fernández  2   5   6 , Ana Isabel Aparicio  2   7   8 , Isabel Martínez-Gras  3   9 , Mónica Dompablo  2   3   10 , Luis Sánchez-Pastor  3 , David Rentero  2   3 , Miguel Ángel Alvarez-Mon  11   12   13 , Juan Manuel Espejo-Saavedra  3   14 , Guillermo Lahera  2   11   13   15 , Paloma Marí-Beffa  16 , José Luis Santos  2   7   8 , Roberto Rodriguez-Jimenez  2   3   4   14
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Emotional Processing Profile in Patients with First Episode Schizophrenia: The Influence of Neurocognition

Verónica Romero-Ferreiro et al. J Clin Med. .

Abstract

This study sought to investigate the influence of neurocognition on the emotional processing profiles of patients with first-episode schizophrenia, using the 4-branch Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT) (Perceiving Emotions; Facilitating Emotions; Understanding Emotions and Managing Emotions). A sample of 78 patients with first-episode schizophrenia and a group of 90 non-psychiatric control subjects were included in this work. The initial results showed that patients had lower scores than controls for the "Understanding Emotions" and "Managing Emotions" MSCEIT branches. However, after controlling for neurocognition, the only deficits were found on the "Managing Emotions" branch of the MSCEIT. This branch can be considered as measuring a more sophisticated level of emotional processing, which may constitute a deficit in itself. In conclusion, patients with first-episode schizophrenia present deficits in social cognition at the highest level that seem to be independent from neurocognition. These findings support the inclusion of the "Managing Emotions" branch of the MSCEIT as part of the MCCB.

Keywords: MCCB; MSCEIT; emotional processing; first episode; schizophrenia; social cognition.

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Conflict of interest statement

R. Rodriguez-Jimenez has been a consultant for, spoken in activities of, or received grants from: Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria (FIS), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Madrid Regional Government (S2010/ BMD-2422 AGES; S2017/BMD-3740), JanssenCilag, Lundbeck, Otsuka, Pfizer, Ferrer, Juste, Takeda, Exeltis, Casen-Recordati, Angelini.

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