Publications by authors named "Daan Jan Kuis"
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- In a study, researchers looked at people at high risk for psychosis and found they had self-stigma, which is negative feelings about themselves, just like those already diagnosed with schizophrenia.
- They tested 184 participants, including those with schizophrenia, those at high risk, and regular people, to see how self-stigma and cognitive insight (how well people understand their own thoughts) were connected.
- Results showed that both groups had similar levels of self-stigma, indicating that feelings of self-stigma start early in those at risk, and that cognitive insight was related to these feelings in different ways.
Social functioning is often impaired in the ultra-high-risk (UHR) phase of psychosis. There is some evidence that empathy is also impaired in this phase and that these impairments may underlie difficulties in social functioning. The main aim of this study was to investigate whether cognitive and affective empathy are lower in people in the UHR phase of psychosis in comparison to healthy controls, and whether possible impairments have the same magnitude as in people with schizophrenia.
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