Differences in social cognition between male prisoners with antisocial personality or psychotic disorder/Diferencias en la cognicion social entre hombres presos con personalidad antisocial o trastorno psicotico

• Published in: International journal of psychological research 2017-07, Vol.10 (2), p.15
• Main Authors: Bertone, Matias Salvador, Diaz-Granados, Edith Aristizabal, Vallejos, Miguel, Muniello, Jessica
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• ISSN: 2011-7922; 2011-7922
• DOI: 10.21500/20112084.2903

The objective of this work is to discriminate between different neurocognitive circuits involved in empathy, one of them linked to emotional processing and the other associated with cognitive function. This is evaluated through the use of neuropsychological tools (Hinting Task, Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test and Cambridge Mind Reading Test) empathic cognition and empathic emotion. In this study, 57 male prisoners were divided into three groups: psychotic patients (20), antisocial patients (17), and a control group (20). Patients with psychosis were found to have significantly lower scores than the antisocial and control groups in a social reasoning test, but using tests of emotional recognition, we found that both psychotic patients and antisocial subjects scored significantly lower than the control group. Keywords Social cognition; psychosis; antisocial disorder; facial emotion recognition; theory of mind. El objetivo de este trabajo es discriminar diferentes circuitos neurocognitivos involucrados en la empatia, uno de ellos vinculado al procesamiento emocional y otro asociado con la funcion cognitiva. Evaluamos mediante el uso de herramientas neuropsicologicas (Hinting Task, Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test y Cambridge Mind Reading Test) la cognicion empatica y la emocion empatica. Participaron del estudio, 57 presos varones que se dividieron en tres grupos: pacientes psicoticos (20), antisociales (17) y un grupo control (20). Se encontro que los pacientes con psicosis tenian puntuaciones significativamente mas bajas que los grupos antisociales y de control en una prueba de razonamiento social, pero utilizando pruebas de reconocimiento emocional, encontramos que tanto los pacientes psicoticos como los sujetos antisociales obtuvieron puntuaciones significativamente mas bajas que el grupo control. Palabras Clave Cognicion social; psicosis; antisociales; reconocimiento de emociones faciales; teoria de la mente.