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  • Psychiatry
  • Clinical Psychology

Background:

  • Individuals with schizophrenia (SZ) exhibit emotion regulation deficits, particularly with reappraisal strategies.
  • Directed attention effectively reduces negative emotions in healthy individuals.
  • Understanding emotion regulation in SZ is crucial for developing targeted interventions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the effectiveness of directed attention as an emotion regulation strategy in individuals with schizophrenia (SZ).
  • To examine emotion-attention interactions and cognitive control deficits in SZ during emotion regulation.
  • To compare the use of directed attention in SZ patients and healthy controls (CN).

Main Methods:

  • Participants included outpatients with SZ (n=28) and healthy controls (CN: n=25).
  • Event-related potential (ERP) and eye-movement tracking were used during passive viewing and directed attention tasks with unpleasant and neutral images.
  • The late positive potential (LPP) indexed emotion regulation success, while eye-tracking and pupillometry assessed attention allocation and cognitive effort.

Main Results:

  • Healthy controls (CN) reduced LPP by directing attention to non-arousing image aspects, unlike SZ patients.
  • SZ patients showed similar LPP amplitudes regardless of attentional focus on image arousal levels.
  • SZ patients were more likely to attend to arousing image regions and failed to disengage attention, suggesting cognitive control deficits.

Conclusions:

  • Individuals with schizophrenia display significant emotion regulation abnormalities.
  • Dysfunctional emotion-attention interactions and cognitive control deficits contribute to ineffective directed attention strategies in SZ.
  • Findings highlight the need for interventions targeting cognitive control and attention in schizophrenia emotion regulation.