Facial emotion discrimination: III. Behavioral findings in schizophrenia

Heimberg, Carolyn; Gur, Raquel E.; Erwin, Roland J.; Shtasel, Derri; Gur, Ruben C.

doi:10.1016/0165-1781(92)90117-l

Cited by 193 publications

(96 citation statements)

References 23 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…In one study of RH-damaged individuals (Kaplan et al 1990), subjects were significantly impaired in detecting sarcastic, but not sincere, utterances, similar to that observed in the present study, although signal-detection measures such as sensitivity (Ak) and bias (Ba) were not reported. Disturbances in RH function would also be expected to give rise to the disturbances in both verbal (Ross et al 2001 ;Leitman et al 2005) and facial affect recognition (Borod et al 1989;David & Cutting, 1990;Heimberg et al 1992) that have been reported in schizophrenia. Indeed, behavioral studies in schizophrenia , as well as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) results (Vollm et al 2006), suggest substantial overlap between general affective cortical networks and specific ToM processing brain regions (Vollm et al 2006).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Theory of Mind (ToM) and counterfactuality deficits in schizophrenia: misperception or misinterpretation?

et al. 2006

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Background. Theory of Mind (ToM) refers to the ability to infer another person's mental state based upon interactional information. ToM deficits have been suggested to underlie crucial aspects of social interaction failure in disorders such as autism and schizophrenia, although the development of paradigms for demonstrating such deficits remains an ongoing area of research. Recent studies have explored the use of sarcasm perception, in which subjects must infer an individual's sincerity or lack thereof, as a 'real-life ' index of ToM ability, and as an index of functioning of specific right hemispheric structures. Sarcastic detection ability has not previously been studied in schizophrenia, although patients have been shown to have deficits in ability to decode emotional information from speech (' affective prosody').

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Theory of Mind (ToM) and counterfactuality deficits in schizophrenia: misperception or misinterpretation?

et al. 2006

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Focusing on facial emotion perception many studies could show deficits in the processing of emotional facial expressions in schizophrenia patients (Feinberg et al, 1986;Heimberg et al, 1992;Kohler et al, 2003;Mueser et al, 1997;Penn et al, 2000;Schneider et al, 1995Schneider et al, , 2006. A more detailed inspection of these impairments revealed that although the sensitivity to detect a specific emotion was preserved, the specificity was affected, ie schizophrenia patients exhibited problems in rejecting faces with other than the target emotional expression .…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neuronal Correlates of Facial Emotion Discrimination in Early Onset Schizophrenia

Seiferth

Pauly

Kellermann

et al. 2008

Neuropsychopharmacol

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Emotion discrimination deficits represent a well-established finding in schizophrenia. Although imaging studies addressed the cerebral dysfunctions underlying emotion perception in adult patients, the question of trait vs state characteristics is still unresolved. The investigation of juvenile patients offers the advantage of studying schizophrenia at an age where influences of illness course and long-term medication are minimized. This may enable a more detailed characterization of emotion discrimination impairments and their cerebral correlates with respect to their appearance and exact nature. A total of 12 juvenile patients with early onset schizophrenia and matched healthy juveniles participated in this study. fMRI data were acquired during an emotion discrimination task consisting of standardized photographs of faces displaying happy, sad, angry, fearful, or neutral facial expression. Similar to findings in adult patients, juvenile patients exhibited reduced performance specificity whereas sensitivity was unaffected. Independent of the valence, their processing of emotional faces was associated with hypoactivations in both fusiform gyri and in the left inferior occipital gyrus. In addition, hyperactivations in patients were found in the right cuneus common to happy, angry, and fearful faces. Further, most distinct changes were present in juvenile patients when processing sad faces. These results point to a dysfunction in cerebral circuits relevant for emotion processing already prominent in adolescent schizophrenia patients. Regions affected by a decrease in activation are related to visual and face processing, similar to deficits reported in adult patients. These changes are accompanied by hyperactivations in areas related to emotion regulation and attribution, possibly reflecting compensatory mechanisms.

show abstract

“…Most of these investigations have found that schizophrenia patients have defi-cits in both facial and vocal affect recognition (e.g. Archer et al, 1994;Baudouin et al, 2002;Borod et al, 1993;Edwards et al, 2001;Feinberg et al, 1986;Heimberg et al, 1992;Mandal et al, 1998;Penn et al, 2000;Schneider et al, 1995;Walker et al, 1984), and that these deficits are not related to age, gender, medication status or neuroleptic dose (Kline et al, 1992;Poole et al, 2000;Salem et al, 1996;Schneider et al, 1995).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Emotion processing and its relationship to social functioning in schizophrenia patients

Hooker

Park

2002

Psychiatry Research

390

232

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Facial emotion discrimination: III. Behavioral findings in schizophrenia

Cited by 193 publications

References 23 publications

Theory of Mind (ToM) and counterfactuality deficits in schizophrenia: misperception or misinterpretation?

Theory of Mind (ToM) and counterfactuality deficits in schizophrenia: misperception or misinterpretation?

Neuronal Correlates of Facial Emotion Discrimination in Early Onset Schizophrenia

Emotion processing and its relationship to social functioning in schizophrenia patients

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About