Specificity of facial emotion recognition impairments in patients with multi-episode schizophrenia

Schizophrenia Research: Cognition

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Leo M.J. de Sonneville, MSc, PhD¹  Carin J. Meijer, MSc, PhD²  Lieuwe de Haan, MD, PhD²  Emile Barkhof, MD, PhD³ 

[1] Department of Clinical Child and Adolescent Studies & Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands;

[2] Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;

[3] Rivierduinen, Institute for Mental Health, Oegstgeest, The Netherlands;

关键词: Schizophrenia;    Social cognition;    Neurocognition;    Emotion perception;    Face recognition;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.scog.2015.01.001

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Background: Patients with schizophrenia show impairments in social information processing, such as recognising facial emotions and face identity.Goal: The aim of this study was to explore whether these impairments represent specific deficits or are part of a more general cognitive dysfunction.Method: Forty-two patients with schizophrenia and 42 matched controls were compared on facial emotion and face identity recognition versus (non-social) abstract pattern recognition, using three tasks of the Amsterdam Neuropsychological Tasks (ANT) program.Results: Patients were slower than controls in social information processing as well as in (non-social) abstract pattern recognition. Patients were also less accurate than controls in processing social information, but not in recognition of abstract patterns. Differences between patients and controls were most substantial for facial emotion recognition compared to both face identity recognition (speed) and non-social pattern recognition (speed and accuracy). Finally, differences between patients and controls were largest for the recognition of negative emotions.Conclusion: Compared to controls patients with schizophrenia displayed more difficulties in processing of social information compared to non-social information. These results support the hypothesis that facial emotion recognition impairment is a relatively distinct entity within the domain of cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia.

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