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Spatial Self Boundary, Interpersonal Distance and Social Impairments in Schizophrenia

精神分裂症的空间自我边界、人际距离和社交障碍

基本信息

批准号：
10374251
负责人：
SOHEE PARK
金额：
$ 70.55万
依托单位：
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2022-08-01 至 2027-05-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10374251
关键词：
Awareness Behavior Behavioral Buffers Chronic Complex Cues Disabled Persons Disease Emotional Environment Goals Homeostasis Impairment Individual Interpersonal Relations Lead Link Loneliness Measures Mental disorders Methodology Methods National Institute of Mental Health Neurocognitive Neurons Participant Pattern Plant Roots Prevalence Process Psychoses Psychotic Disorders Reaction Time Regulation Research Domain Criteria Rest Role Schizophrenia Social Behavior Social Functioning Social Interaction Social isolation Specific qualifier value Tactile Testing To specify disability effective intervention functional outcomes interest multisensory neural correlate neuroimaging neurophysiology neuropsychiatry nonhuman primate novel phenomenological models psychologic relating to nervous system social social deficits social factors social space tool virtual reality virtual reality environment

项目摘要

PROJECT SUMMARY Schizophrenia is a severe and debilitating psychotic disorder, characterized by disturbances of the basic sense of self and social disconnection throughout the course of illness. The proposed project aims to elucidate the impact of self-disturbances in social impairments by focusing on one core aspect of the bodily self, the self-other boundary. An implicit awareness of clearly defined self-boundary is a prerequisite for adaptive interactions with the external world. In individuals with schizophrenia, however, a disrupted self-other boundary complicates the process of distinguishing one’s own behaviors from those of others, thereby undermining social interactions. Loss of social opportunities often leads to social isolation, which further erodes interpersonal relationships and exacerbates self-disturbances, setting up a destructive cycle. Despite the chronicity and prevalence of self-disturbances and social impairments in schizophrenia, common mechanisms underlying disrupted self-other distinction and social impairments have not been extensively investigated. One major hurdle has been a lack of methodological tools to quantify the subjective phenomenology of self-disturbances. We will utilize novel behavioral methods and leverage the technological advances in immersive virtual reality (VR) to investigate two core aspects of self-other interactions in space: (1) the implicit multisensory action space around the self that determines one’s self-other boundary (peripersonal space); (2) the social construct of the interpersonal comfort space (interpersonal distance). To estimate the implicit self- boundary in our participants, we will implement a basic visuo-tactile integration paradigm in VR adapted from neurophysiological studies of multisensory neurons in nonhuman primates. To assess the social comfort space that determines interpersonal distance, we will use the stop-distance paradigm in VR. This approach will allow us to quantify the self-other boundary in the context of social interactions and link to their neural correlates. We will specify mechanisms that connect these constructs to identify more precise targets for treatment. Systematic examination of the peripersonal space and its relation to interpersonal distance regulation may be a first step towards identifying the role of self-disturbances in components of disrupted social behavior. This project will utilize mechanisms underlying multisensory integration processes to understand complex social behavior. Self‐disturbances are common features of a wide range of neuropsychiatric conditions. Indeed, all forms of psychiatric disorders may be conceptualized as maladies of disrupted social homeostasis between the self and the social world. Thus, this approach may be broadly applicable across multiple neuropsychiatric conditions that intersect with self-disorders and social impairments and will contribute towards the goals of the NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) strategy.

项目总结