Evidences of a “protection” of Social-cognition Abilities Against the Effect of Subclinical Psychotic Symptoms in General Population: Thymic Symptoms and Theory of Mind
Résumé
The relationship between " Theory of Mind " (ToM) or more generally, social cognition and psychotic symptoms is largely supported by the actual literature. What is less known is the relationship between mood symptoms and ToM. Some studies found that bipolar disorder patients as well as depressed remitted patients have worse performances on ToM tasks than healthy subjects. This would explain the poor social abilities of depressive patients and constitute a risk factor of relapse for patients (Inoue, 2006). One of the actual trends in psychiatric studies is to explore symptoms as latent dimensions, present, in variable proportions, in everybody (Ford et al. 2014). Some psychotic symptoms are present even in persons without severe mental disease, like auditory hallucination for example. These subclinical lifetime symptoms are evaluated specifically by the Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences (CAPE, Brenner et al. 1). AIMS We study the relationship between mood and psychotic lifetime subclinical symptoms and ToM performances in a group of undergraduate students.
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