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Schizophrenia, symptomatology and social inference: Investigating “theory of mind” in people with schizophrenia

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The notion that some patients with schizophrenia have difficulties with tasks requiring 'theory of mind' skills and that this deficiency is symptom specific is supported.
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This article is published in Schizophrenia Research.The article was published on 1995-09-01. It has received 1198 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming) & Theory of mind.

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Neurocognitive Deficit in Schizophrenia: A Quantitative Review of the Evidence

TL;DR: The results indicate that schizophrenia is characterized by a broadly based cognitive impairment, with varying degrees of deficit in all ability domains measured by standard clinical tests.
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Interacting Minds--A Biological Basis

TL;DR: Observations suggest that the ability to mentalize has evolved from a system for representing actions, and medial prefrontal regions are concerned with explicit representation of states of the self.
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The relationship between neurocognition and social cognition with functional outcomes in schizophrenia: a meta-analysis.

TL;DR: Overall, social cognition was more strongly associated with community functioning than neurocognition, with the strongest associations being between theory of mind and functional outcomes.
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“Theory of Mind” in Schizophrenia: A Review of the Literature

TL;DR: It is still under debate how an impaired ToM in schizophrenia is associated with other aspects of cognition, how the impairment fluctuates with acuity or chronicity of the schizophrenic disorder, and how this affects the patients' use of language and social behavior.
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From the perception of action to the understanding of intention

TL;DR: Evidence that biological motion is processed as a special category, to which humans from an early age attribute mental states such as intention is reviewed, to support the idea that the brain is a powerful simulating machine, designed to extract intentions from the motion and to predict the future actions of other animate beings.
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Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

Aaron T. Beck
TL;DR: In cognitive therapy, a person's psychological difficulties stem from his own erroneous assumptions and faulty concepts of himself and the world as mentioned in this paper, and such a person can be helped to recognize and correct distortions in thinking that cause his emotional disturbance.
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Learned Helplessness in Humans: Critique and Reformulation

TL;DR: According to the reformulation, once people perceive noncontingency, they attribute their helplessness to a cause and this cause can be stable or unstable, global or specific, and internal or external.
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Does the autistic child have a theory of mind

TL;DR: A new model of metarepresentational development is used to predict a cognitive deficit which could explain a crucial component of the social impairment in childhood autism.

Does the Autistic Child Have a''Theory of Mind''? Cognition

TL;DR: In this paper, a new model of metarepresentational development was used to predict a cognitive deficit in children with autism, which could explain a crucial component of the social impairment in childhood autism.
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Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind

TL;DR: This paper showed an adult chimpanzee a series of videotaped scenes of a human actor struggling with a variety of problems, some of which were simple, such as bananas vertically or horizontally out of reach, behind a box, and so forth; others were more complex, involving an actor unable to extricate himself from a locked cage, shivering because of a malfunctioning heater, or unable to play a phonograph because it was unplugged.
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