Higher-order social cognition in first-episode major depression.

摘要: Patients suffering from major depression experience difficulties in multiple cognitive faculties. A growing body of research has linked affective disorders to abnormalities social cognition and specifically the processing discrete emotional stimuli. However, little inquiry gone into possible impairment higher-order including theory mind, perception metacognition. Forty-four medication-naive patients with first-episode unipolar depressive disorder an equal number matched controls were assessed by Metacognitive Assessment Scale-Abbreviated (MAS-A), The Frith-Happe animations (FHA) Awareness Social Inference Test (TASIT). Additionally, neurocognition was utilyzing Cambridge Neuropsychological Automated Battery (CANTAB). Depressed showed all domains ability. Importantly, variables retained their inter-group significance after controlling for covariates neurocognition. Results indicate that depressed