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How to choose the right assessment of social cognition for your study

11 October 2019 / Insights

Insights Back to resource centre 11 October 2019 How to choose the right assessment of social cognition for your study The Emotion Recognition Task (ERT) and Emotion Bias Task (EBT) both assess social cognition, but which is more appropriate for different participant groups? What are the CANTAB social cognition tasks? On the face of it, ERT and EBT appear analogous

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What is the value of objectively measuring emotional bias?

4 October 2018 / Insights

Insights Back to resource centre 4 October 2018 What is the value of objectively measuring emotional bias? A negative, perceptual bias is associated with the onset and maintenance of mood disorders, and is therefore a therapeutic avenue of interest. Here we will discuss the launch of an objective assessment of emotional bias as a potential biomarker of mood. What is

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Using affective cognition to enhance precision psychiatry

3 July 2018 / Insights

Insights Back to resource centre 3 July 2018 Using affective cognition to enhance precision psychiatry Precision psychiatry is a promising new approach that seeks to improve outcomes in highly heterogeneous clinical populations. Frontiers in Psychiatry recently published an interesting opinion piece on “Using Affective Cognition to Enhance Precision Psychiatry” 1 by Dr Jack Cotter, Clinical Science Team Lead at Cambridge Cognition, and Dr Jenny Barnett, Chief

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Affective face processing in schizophrenia: disorder-specific or transdiagnostic deficit?

6 April 2018 / Insights

Insights Back to resource centre 6 April 2018 Affective face processing in schizophrenia: disorder-specific or transdiagnostic deficit? Our recent review of meta-analyses concluded that facial emotion recognition deficits are common across a range of psychiatric, neurological and developmental disorders. Our Senior Scientist, Dr Jack Cotter, presented the latest findings at Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS) conference. BackgroundSocial cognitive dysfunction is

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Social cognition: an important but overlooked aspect of cognitive function

28 November 2017 / Insights

Insights Social cognition: an important but overlooked aspect of cognitive function 28 November 2017 Back to resource centre Social cognitive deficits have traditionally been linked with autism spectrum conditions. However, a recent paper from Cambridge Cognition suggests that deficits in social cognition are exhibited across a range of neurological, psychiatric and developmental disorders. Our ability to understand the thoughts and

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