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1283 – Social Motor Coordinations: a Study With Schizophrenia And Social Phobic Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2020

D. Capdevielle ,
R. Salesse ,
J. Del-Monte ,
M. Varlet ,
L. Marin ,
J.-P. Boulenger ,
R. Smith ,
B. Bardy  and
S. Raffard
D. Capdevielle
Affiliation:
Service Universitaire de Psychiatrie Adulte, Montpellier 1 University, CHRU de Montpellier INSERM U 1061
R. Salesse
Affiliation:
Movement to Health Laboratory, EuroMov, Montpellier 1 University
J. Del-Monte
Affiliation:
Epsylon Laboratory Dynamic of Human Abilities & Health Behaviors, University of Montpellier & St-Etienne, Montpellier, France
M. Varlet
Affiliation:
Movement to Health Laboratory, EuroMov, Montpellier 1 University
L. Marin
Affiliation:
Movement to Health Laboratory, EuroMov, Montpellier 1 University
J.-P. Boulenger
Affiliation:
Service Universitaire de Psychiatrie Adulte, Montpellier 1 University, CHRU de Montpellier
R. Smith
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, USA
B. Bardy
Affiliation:
Movement to Health Laboratory, EuroMov, Montpellier 1 University
S. Raffard
Affiliation:
Service Universitaire de Psychiatrie Adulte, Montpellier 1 University, CHRU de Montpellier Epsylon Laboratory Dynamic of Human Abilities & Health Behaviors, University of Montpellier & St-Etienne, Montpellier, France

Abstract

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Introduction

Social interactions dysfunctions make up core symptoms of many mental disorders and have been extensively studied through cognitive paradigms gathered under the concept of social cognition. Nevertheless, a growing body of literature have demonstrated that motor coordination is an important feature of these human social interactions but has been little studied in the context of mental diseases.

Objective

In this study, we propose to compare the processes of inter-agent coordination in healthy and socially impaired clinical populations (e.g. schizophrenia and social phobia patients).

Method

20 schizophrenia and 20 social phobia patients were compared to 20 healthy subjects using an hand-held pendulum paradigm in intentional and unintentional interpersonal motor coordination, with different leadership conditions. All participants had psychopathological and neuropsychological evaluations.

Results

Our results demonstrated that each group of subject was characterised by specific signature concerning interpersonal motor coordination. More specifically, instability of the coordination and temporal delay between patient and controls revealed that schizophrenia impaired intentional coordination but not spontaneous non-intentional coordination whereas social phobia only affected leader conditions.

Conclusion

Taken altogether, these preliminary results give evidence that motor control through motor coordination behaviours is a fundamental part of social interactions deficits in schizophrenia and social phobia. These results lead us to examine if the evaluation of motor coordination during a social interactions could help to discriminate the deficits in social interactions and to propose specific therapy for their rehabilitation.

Acknowledgements

This research was supported by an Agence Nationale de la Recherche grant (Project SCAD # ANR-09- BLAN-0405-03).

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European Psychiatry , Volume 28 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 21th European Congress of Psychiatry , 2013 , 28-E634
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2013
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