Systematic review of the neural basis of social cognition in patients with mood disorders

AM Cusi, A Nazarov, K Holshausen… - Journal of Psychiatry and …, 2012 - jpn.ca
Background: This review integrates neuroimaging studies of 2 domains of social cognition
— emotion comprehension and theory of mind (ToM) — in patients with major depressive …

Altered empathic responding in major depressive disorder: relation to symptom severity, illness burden, and psychosocial outcome

AM Cusi, GM MacQueen, RN Spreng, MC McKinnon - Psychiatry research, 2011 - Elsevier
Individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD) demonstrate deficits in multiple social
cognitive domains; however, systematic investigations of empathic responding have not been …

Theory of mind deficits in patients with mild symptoms of major depressive disorder

AM Cusi, A Nazarov, GM MacQueen, MC McKinnon - Psychiatry Research, 2013 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to investigate theory of mind (ToM) in a sample of depressed patients
with mild symptom severity using a measure with varied cognitive processing demands. …

Impaired theory of mind performance in patients with recurrent bipolar disorder: Moderating effect of cognitive load

MC McKinnon, AM Cusi, GM MacQueen - Psychiatry research, 2010 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to investigate theory of mind (ToM) performance on tasks that varied
in the demands they placed on cognitive processing resources in a sample of 14 bipolar …

Patients with bipolar disorder show impaired performance on complex tests of social cognition

AM Cusi, GM MacQueen, MC McKinnon - Psychiatry research, 2012 - Elsevier
The literature concerning social cognitive performance in people with bipolar disorder (BD)
reveals a mixed pattern of findings. We compared performance between patients with BD …

Psychological factors that may confer risk for bipolar disorder

MC McKinnon, AM Cusi… - Cognitive …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Several psychological domains may be dysfunctional in people with bipolar disorder (BD).
When dysfunction occurs prior to onset of mood symptoms, it may signify risk for onset of the …

[HTML][HTML] An overview of psychological and neurobiological mechanisms by which early negative experiences increase risk of mood disorders

S Hassel, MC McKinnon, AM Cusi… - Journal of the …, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective: Early life experiences are associated with severe and long-lasting effects on
behavioural and emotional functioning, which in turn are thought to increase the risk for unipolar …

Expressing fear enhances sensory acquisition

JM Susskind, DH Lee, A Cusi, R Feiman… - Nature …, 2008 - nature.com
It has been proposed that facial expression production originates in sensory regulation.
Here we demonstrate that facial expressions of fear are configured to enhance sensory …

Co-responding police-mental health programs: A review

GK Shapiro, A Cusi, M Kirst, P O'Campo… - … and policy in mental …, 2015 - Springer
Co-responding police-mental health programs are increasingly used to respond to ‘Emotionally
Disturbed Persons’ in the community; however, there is limited understanding of …

Altered self-report of empathic responding in patients with bipolar disorder

A Cusi, GM MacQueen, MC McKinnon - Psychiatry Research, 2010 - Elsevier
Despite evidence of impairments in social cognition in patients with bipolar disorder (BD),
systematic investigations of empathic responding in this population have not been conducted. …