Perception of facial and vocal affect by people with schizophrenia in early and late stages of illness

Kucharska-Pietura, K1, David, A. S., Masiak, M. and Phillips, Mary L 2005. Perception of facial and vocal affect by people with schizophrenia in early and late stages of illness. British Journal of Psychiatry 187 , pp. 523-528. 10.1192/bjp.187.6.523

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Emotion recognition impairments have been demonstrated in schizophrenia, but few studies have examined whether these reflect generalised or specific perceptual deficits or are associated with illness course. AIMS: To examine the nature of emotion recognition abnormalities in patients with schizophrenia at different stages of illness. METHOD: We examined the performance of 50 in-patients with early-stage schizophrenia, 50 with chronic schizophrenia and 50 healthy controls on the Benton Facial Recognition Test, Facial Emotion Recognition Test and Voice Emotion Recognition Test. RESULTS: Patients with chronic schizophrenia were significantly more impaired than other groups on the emotional tasks, even after controlling for impairments in non-emotional stimuli. Individual emotion recognition accuracy for the two sensory modalities was not significantly positively correlated for either group with schizophrenia. CONCLUSIONS: Emotion recognition deficits in schizophrenia are trait features of the disorder and increase with illness duration.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Medicine
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher:	Royal College of Psychiatrists
ISSN:	0007-1250
Last Modified:	07 Dec 2015 15:14
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/83324

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