Publications by authors named "Yara Massalha"
Structuring sensory events in time is essential for interacting with the environment and producing adaptive behaviors. Over the past years, the microstructure of temporality received increasing attention, recognized as a fundamental factor influencing cognitive, affective, and social abilities, whose alteration can underlie the etiopathogeneses of some clinical symptoms in psychiatric disorders. The present research investigated multisensory temporal processing in individuals with schizophrenia (N = 21), bipolar disorder (N = 20) and healthy controls (N = 21) in order to explore a plausible link between multisensory alterations in the temporal order of events and the psychopathological dimensions underlying psychosis.
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- People with bipolar disorder (BD) often struggle with thinking and understanding social situations, which makes it hard for them to interact with others.
- Researchers used a special brain scanning technique (rs-fMRI) to study how the brains of people with BD connect differently compared to healthy people, focusing on their thinking and social skills.
- The studies found that BD patients had weaker brain connections in certain areas, especially involving the prefrontal cortex, which is important for these cognitive skills; however, the different methods used in studies made it hard to compare results.