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Facial emotion recognition deficits: The new face of schizophrenia

FACIAL EMOTION RECOGNITION DEFICITS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA

Facial emotion recognition deficits have been consistently demonstrated in schizophrenia and are found to be specific for negative emotions of fear, anger, and disgust.[8,9,10]

8. Mandal MK, Pandey R, Prasad AB. Facial expressions of emotions and schizophrenia: A review. Schizophr Bull. 1998;24:399–412. [PubMed]

9. Van’t Wout M, van Dijke A, Aleman A, Kessels RP, Pijpers W, Kahn RS. Fearful faces in schizophrenia: The relationship between patient characteristics and facial affect recognition. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2007;195:758–64. [PubMed]

10. Kohler CG, Bilker W, Hagendoorn M, Gur RE, Gur RC. Emotion recognition deficit in schizophrenia: Association with symptomatology and cognition. Biol Psychiatry. 2000;48:127–36. [PubMed]