Brain and Behavior Research Foundation-Funded Study Provides Explanation for Why People with Schizophrenia Have Difficulty with Social Cues
Brain and Behavior Research Foundation-Funded Study Provides Explanation for Why People with Schizophrenia Have Difficulty with Social Cues
Posted: May 26, 2011
Foundation Grantee Sohee Park, Ph.D., and colleagues at Vanderbilt University have discovered that impairments in a brain area involved in perception of social stimuli may be partly responsible for the difficulty schizophrenia patients have in understanding the actions of others. The researchers found that a particular brain area, the posterior superior temporal sulcus or STS, appears to be implicated in this deficit.
