Abstract
Facial emotion processing in schizophrenia: a review of behavioural and neural correlates
Highlights
Schizophrenia (SZ) is one of the most debilitating psychiatric disorders, often associated with impairments in social cognition [1,2]
Impairments in social cognition are observed in prodromal and early phases of psychosis - as well as in unaffected family members - remaining largely unaffected by pharmacological treatment [9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16]
Averbeck et al [84] found that the administration of oxytocin improved the ability of patients with SZ to recognize emotional faces, and a systematic review about the conjoint use of oxytocin in interventions directed to social cognition reported favourable results [79]
Summary
Schizophrenia (SZ) is one of the most debilitating psychiatric disorders, often associated with impairments in social cognition [1,2]. Using a facial emotional attribution test, Premkumar et al [41] showed that psychotic patients were less accurate than controls in recognizing fearful and angry faces (compared to happy and neutral), revealing more fear-as-anger misattributions. Several factors related to the experimental design may contribute to the inconsistency of findings across studies in SZ, namely the characteristics of the facial stimuli (e.g., intensity, original database, gender, colour of the picture) and the emotion categories (e.g., angry, neutral, fearful, sad and happy) [19].
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