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  • Psychiatry
  • Cognitive Science

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  • Social interaction relies on perceiving emotional cues from faces and voices.
  • This perception is often impaired in psychiatric conditions, affecting social functioning.
  • Emotion communication training can improve social interaction and reduce deficits.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of non-verbal emotion communication training (NECT) on brain activity and structure.
  • To explore functional and structural brain changes associated with improved emotion perception.

Main Methods:

  • A controlled study combining functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and voxel-based morphometry.
  • Participants underwent NECT, with pre- and post-training assessments of brain function and structure.
  • Analysis focused on changes in cerebral activation and gray matter volume.

Main Results:

  • NECT led to reduced brain activity in face, voice, emotion, and motor processing regions.
  • Behavioral improvements in emotion sensitivity correlated with changes in brain activation patterns.
  • Increased gray matter volume was observed in the fusiform face area following NECT.

Conclusions:

  • NECT induces functional and structural plasticity in the face processing system.
  • The training also promotes functional plasticity in emotion perception and evaluation systems.
  • This approach may be valuable for studying and treating emotional processing deficits in psychiatric disorders.