Article
Clinical Neurology
Shih-Chieh Lee, Gong-Hong Lin, Ching-Lin Shih, Kuan-Wei Chen, Chen-Chung Liu, Chian-Jue Kuo, Ching-Lin Hsieh
Summary: This study investigates the error patterns of facial emotion recognition (FER) in patients with schizophrenia. The findings suggest that compared to healthy adults, patients with schizophrenia show insensitivity to negative emotions, misrecognition of happy faces as negative emotions, misinterpretation of surprised faces, and confusion of certain negative emotions. The study suggests that interventions could be selected to improve the patients' sensitivity to negative emotions, differentiation of emotions, understanding of surprised faces, and discrimination of negative emotions.
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
(2022)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Roberto Pablo Gonzalez, Ingrid Tortades, Francesc Alpiste, Joaquin Fernandez, Jordi Torner, Mar Garcia-Franco, Jose Ramon Martin-Martinez, Sonia Vilamala, Maria Jose Escandell, Emma Casas-Anguera, Gemma Prat, Susana Ochoa
Summary: The study tested the usability of 'Feeling Master' as an interactive gaming tool for assessing emotional recognition in individuals with schizophrenia, showing more prevalent impairments in emotion recognition and their correlation with theory of mind deficits.
JOURNAL OF PERSONALIZED MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Psychiatry
Josep Pena-Garijo, Maria Lacruz, Maria Jose Masanet, Ana Palop-Grau, Rut Plaza, Ana Hernandez -Merino, Silvia Edo-Villamon, Oscar Valllina
Summary: This study aimed to explore the recognition of specific emotions across the course of psychosis. Facial emotion recognition (FER) was assessed using a visual task representing the six basic emotions in 204 healthy controls and 100 patients with psychosis. The study found that FER deficits were present in individuals at high risk for psychosis and increased along the psychosis continuum, with fear recognition possibly serving as a vulnerability marker. Deficits in anger and fear recognition predicted the presence of psychosis.
PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Laura Fusar-Poli, Lotta-Katrin Pries, Jim van Os, Gamze Erzin, Philippe Delespaul, Gunter Kenis, Juryen J. Luykx, Bochao D. Lin, Alexander L. Richards, Berna Akdede, Tolga Binbay, Vesile Altinyazar, Berna Yalincetin, Guvem Gumus-Akay, Burgin Cihan, Haldun Soygur, Halis Ulas, Eylem Sahin Cankurtaran, Semra Ulusoy Kaymak, Marina M. Mihaljevic, Sanja Andric-Petrovic, Tijana Mirjanic, Miguel Bernardo, Gisela Mezquida, Silvia Amoretti, Julio Bobes, Pilar A. Saiz, Maria Paz Garcia-Portilla, Julio Sanjuan, Eduardo J. Aguilar, Jose Luis Santos, Estela Jimenez-Lopez, Manuel Arrojo, Angel Carracedo, Gonzalo Lopez, Javier Gonzalez-Penas, Mara Parellada, Nadja P. Maric, Cem Atbasoglu, Alp Ucok, Koksal Alptekin, Meram Can Saka, Eugenio Aguglia, Celso Arango, Michael O'Donovan, Bart P. F. Rutten, Sinan Guloksuz
Summary: The study found that facial emotion recognition deficits may serve as an intermediate phenotype for schizophrenia using a proxy genetic risk approach. However, no significant association was observed between facial emotion recognition and polygenic risk score for schizophrenia. Further research should investigate the genetic mechanisms underlying facial emotion recognition phenotypes trans-diagnostically.
PROGRESS IN NEURO-PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Nora I. Muros, Arturo S. Garcia, Cristina Forner, Pablo Lopez-Arcas, Guillermo Lahera, Roberto Rodriguez-Jimenez, Karen N. Nieto, Jose Miguel Latorre, Antonio Fernandez-Caballero, Patricia Fernandez-Sotos
Summary: The study found that patients with schizophrenia have difficulty recognizing emotions in facial expressions, and they show a learning effect during the task, which is important for designing training interventions.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Amal Taamallah, Soumeyya Halayem, Olfa Rajhi, Malek Ghazzai, Mohamed Moussa, Maissa Touati, Houda Ben Yahia Ayadi, Sami Ouanes, Zeineb S. S. Abbes, Melek Hajri, Selima Jelili, Radhouane Fakhfakh, Asma Bouden
Summary: The study aimed to validate a facial emotion recognition test for assessing children with autism spectrum disorders. Results demonstrated good performance in terms of content validity, construct validity, and reliability, with significant correlations between age, emotional intensity, and recognition abilities.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Alejandro De la Torre-Luque, Alba Viera-Campos, Amy C. Bilderbeck, Maria Teresa Carreras, Jose Vivancos, Covadonga M. Diaz-Caneja, Moji Aghajani, Ilja M. J. Saris, Andreea Raslescu, Asad Malik, Jenna Clark, Brenda W. J. H. Penninx, Nic van der Wee, Inge Winter-van Rossum, Bernd Sommer, Hugh Marston, Gerard R. Dawson, Martien J. Kas, Jose Luis Ayuso-Mateos, Celso Arango
Summary: This study investigated the role of social withdrawal in neuropsychiatric patients and found that they showed poorer performance in detecting facial emotions compared to healthy individuals. Social withdrawal was associated with higher accuracy in negative emotion detection and lower misclassification of positive emotions. These findings suggest that social withdrawal may lead to heightened sensitivity to negative emotions and impact social functioning in people with severe mental illness.
PROGRESS IN NEURO-PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Patricia Fernandez-Sotos, Arturo S. Garcia, Miguel A. Vicente-Querol, Guillermo Lahera, Roberto Rodriguez-Jimenez, Antonio Fernandez-Caballero
Summary: The study used dynamic virtual faces to simulate rich emotional expressions, and the results showed that these virtual faces were as effective as natural faces in reproducing facial expressions, and even more accurate in recognizing emotions. Age and gender seemed to have no significant impact on facial emotion recognition.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Simge Uzman Ozbek, Ekin Sut, Emre Bora
Summary: This study compared group differences in social and non-social cognition in individuals with ASD and schizophrenia and examined the impact of age and other factors on these differences. The findings showed that schizophrenia was associated with more severe impairments in non-social cognition, while ASD was associated with more severe impairments in social cognition. The pattern and developmental trajectories of these deficits differed between the two disorders and were also influenced by age and other factors.
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
(2023)
Review
Behavioral Sciences
Jose Augusto Silva Reis, Giordano Novak Rossi, Flavia L. Osorio, Jose Carlos Bouso, Jaime Eduardo Cecilio Hallak, Rafael Guimaraes dos Santos
Summary: Recognition of emotions in facial expressions (REFE) is crucial for social cognition. Studies on major depressive disorder (MDD) have shown conflicting evidence regarding REFE alteration. This systematic review analyzed clinical trials on therapeutic interventions for MDD and their effects on REFE. While some interventions, such as drugs and psychotherapy, appeared to reduce REFE biases in MDD patients, significant heterogeneity was observed in terms of sample, interventions, tasks, and results. Further research and consistent evaluation tools are needed to understand the nuanced deficits and specific outcomes of different treatment options.
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
(2023)
Article
Psychiatry
Michael J. Spilka, William R. Keller, Robert W. Buchanan, James M. Gold, James I. Koenig, Gregory P. Strauss
Summary: This study investigated the relationship between plasma oxytocin (OT) levels and social cognition in individuals with schizophrenia (SZ). The results showed that lower plasma OT levels were associated with decreased accuracy in facial emotion recognition, indicating a potential role of endogenous OT in social cognitive abilities in SZ. However, there was no association between OT levels and visual attention to salient facial features. These findings highlight the importance of understanding the association between endogenous OT and social cognition in SZ for the improvement of OT-focused therapies.
ACTA PSYCHIATRICA SCANDINAVICA
(2022)
Article
Psychiatry
Yu-Hong Wang, Xin-Fu Wang, Li-Da Shi, Xiao-Mei Xu, Li-Ning Wei, Shan-Shan Li, Xi-Po Li, Xin-Li Ma, Zhan-Min Li, Xin-Zhen Wei, Qian Wang, Ke-Qiang Wang
Summary: This study investigated the facial emotion recognition and interpersonal communication of male veterans with chronic schizophrenia, to provide a reference for designing social skills training programmes. The results showed that patients had lower recognition accuracy for neutral expressions compared to other expressions, while the control group had a similar pattern. The accuracy of facial emotion recognition was correlated with age of onset, negative symptoms, and interpersonal communication.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Lyn S. Turkstra, Sam Hosseini-Moghaddam, Sophie Wohltjen, Sara V. Nurre, Bilge Mutlu, Melissa C. Duff
Summary: A study found impaired emotion recognition in adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Two major design features of previous studies limit the application of results to real-world contexts. To address these limitations, a new task was created to more closely approximate how adults with TBI label facial emotions beyond the lab.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Sade J. Abiodun, Joanna M. Salerno, Galen A. Mcallister, Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin, Kendra L. Seaman
Summary: This study investigated age-related differences in evoked responses to dynamic facial expressions. The results showed that older adults rated positive facial expressions (happy) more positively and negative facial expressions (angry and sad) more negatively than younger adults in terms of valence. However, there was no significant difference in arousal to negative expressions between older and younger adults. Overall, the findings suggest that older adults may be more sensitive to variations in dynamic facial expressions, particularly in terms of valence estimates.
JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES B-PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Francesco Pancotti, Sonia Mele, Vincenzo Callegari, Raffaella Bivi, Francesca Saracino, Laila Craighero
Summary: Embodied cognition theories suggest that observing facial expressions can influence emotion recognition, with schizophrenia patients showing reduced ability in facial emotion expression and perception. Specific physical training targeting facial muscles can improve recognition of others' facial emotions, especially for fear, suggesting a possible link between sensorimotor system deficits and cognitive deficits.