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- Title
A nation-wide twin study of social cognition in schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
- Authors
Lemvigh, Cecilie K.; Glenthøj, Birte Y.; Fagerlund, Birgitte
- Abstract
We examined social cognition in 32 monozygotic (MZ) and 21 dizygotic (DZ) twin pairs concordant or discordant for a schizophrenia spectrum diagnosis and healthy control (HC) twin pairs (29 MZ/20 DZ). All participants were recruited through the Danish registers. Patients showed several deficits in the ability to detect sarcasm. Impairments were also observed in the unaffected MZ co-twins, indicating that social cognitive deficits could be a genetic vulnerability indicator of the disease. Worse social cognition was associated with lower intelligence and higher levels of psychopathology in patients.
- Subjects
SOCIAL perception; SCHIZOPHRENIA; PATHOLOGICAL psychology; SARCASM; TWINS
- Publication
Schizophrenia (2754-6993), 2022, Vol 8, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2754-6993
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41537-022-00223-1