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DISTURBED SOCIAL COGNITION IN SCHIZOPHRENIA PATIENTS AS CAUSE OF THEIR SOCIAL FUNCTIONING DEFICIT // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2012. Issue 6 (121). P. 141-147

The article accounts for the choice of research subject with the reference to the works of Russian and foreign scientists and it highlights the results of the conducted research. It explains the process of disturbed social cognition in schizophrenia patients and shows how social cognition impairment can result in social functioning defi cits.

Keywords: social cognition, impairment in social cognition, schizophrenia, positive and negative symptoms, social anhedonia, social functioning, reduction in social functioning