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A review of emotion deficits in schizophrenia
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Emotion deficits in schizophrenia have been described since the time of Kraepelin. However, no comprehensive review of clinical emotion studies has ever been conducted. In this work, studies that used diagnostic criteria and were published in English were selected from an extensive PubMed search. Fifty-five studies on emotion expression repeatedly showed that individuals with schizophrenia (IWSs) display fewer overt expressions than nonpatient comparison subjects (NCSs) in verbal, facial, and acoustic channels. No clear differences were found between IWSs and depressed subjects. Sixty-nine studies examined emotion experience in schizophrenia. IWSs report higher anhedonia, and they tend to show more negative emotions in real-life event studies. In evocative studies, they report a similar degree of pleasantness and a similar or higher degree of unpleasantness. From 110 studies, it can be concluded that emotion recognition is impaired in schizophrenia in all channels. These deficits in social perception are correlated with neurocognitive deficits and some social skills. IWSs show dysfunction in the three domains of emotion expression, emotion experience, and emotion recognition, and these dysfunctions appear to be independent of each other across domains. These deficits in basic emotion processing may be linked to psychopathology and functional outcomes.
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- Authors
- Trémeau, F.
- Affiliations
- Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research (US)
- Corresponding author
- Trémeau, Fabien
- Venue
- Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2006-03-31
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 59-70
- ISSN
- 1294-8322 (ISSN-L)
- 1958-5969
- PMC
- PMC3181757
- OpenAlex
- W1568263921
- Cited by
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- FWCI
- 5.95
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- journal article
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- en
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- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Keywords
- schizophrenia, emotional expression, emotional experience, anhedonia, emotion recognition, facial expressions, vocal emotion, social perception, social skills, neurocognitive impairment, depression
- MeSH terms
- Affective Symptoms, Emotions, Facial Expression, Humans, Perception, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Schizophrenia, Schizophrenic Psychology, Recognition, Psychology, PubMed
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