Recognition of facial emotions in schizophrenia

摘要

Studies continue to use stimuli limited in color format, age and ethnicity of poser, and are limited to posed and unfelt emotions. Future research will benefit from more exact guidelines on what defines emotion recognition and discrimination tests, the number of stimuli and presentation, similar to guidelines that exist for cognitive tests. There remains a need to study and compare emotion recognition groups with similar phenomenology, such as schizophrenia versus bipolar disorder or major depression with psychotic features, different types of epilepsies and dementias. Such comparisons linked with anatomical findings of limbic system structures will inform us about the specificity of emotion processing deficits in different brain disorders and associated neural circuitry.