scholarly journals Facial emotion recognition and its association with symptom severity, functionality, and cognitive impairment in schizophrenia: preliminary results

Salud Mental ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 105-112
Author(s):  
Johanna Vanessa Suárez-Salazar ◽  
Ana Fresán-Orellana ◽  
Ricardo Arturo Saracco-Álvarez
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Symptom Severity ◽  
Functional Disability ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Facial Emotion Recognition ◽  
Facial Emotion ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Preliminary Results

Introduction. There is evidence to suggest that individuals with schizophrenia have greater difficulty in recognizing facial emotions, which has been related to cognitive impairment and higher symptom severity in this disease and seems to lead to a worse functional prognosis. Objective. To determine the association between facial emotion recognition and symptom severity, functionality, and cognitive impairment in a sample of schizophrenic patients. Method. This is an observational, cross-sectional, and correlational study conducted on 72 patients. The following scales: PANSS, MOCA, ERI, and FACT-Sz were used to assess symptom severity in schizophrenia, cognitive functioning, facial emotion recognition, and functionality, respectively. The Pearson Correlation Coefficient was used to measure the linear association between all variables. Results. Overall, moderate symptom severity and mild cognitive and functional disability were found. The most frequently recognized emotion was joy (70%) and the least frequently recognized one was anger. A positive association was also found between anger recognition and severity of the PANSS cognitive subscale (r = - .24, p = .03), sadness recognition and severity of the PANSS negative subscale (r = - .24, p = .03), and the FACT-Sz score and fear recognition (r = .31, p = .008). Discussion and conclusion. The present study yields preliminary results that provide a broader perspective on facial emotion recognition and, indirectly, social interaction and functionality in people with schizophrenia.

scholarly journals Facial emotion recognition in adolescents with psychotic-like experiences: a school-based sample from the general population

2012 ◽  
Vol 42 (10) ◽  
pp. 2157-2166 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Roddy ◽  
L. Tiedt ◽  
I. Kelleher ◽  
M. C. Clarke ◽  
J. Murphy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Facial Emotion Recognition ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Facial Emotion ◽  
Psychotic Symptoms ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
School Based ◽  
Schizophrenia Spectrum ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
The Relationship

BackgroundPsychotic symptoms, also termed psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) in the absence of psychotic disorder, are common in adolescents and are associated with increased risk of schizophrenia-spectrum illness in adulthood. At the same time, schizophrenia is associated with deficits in social cognition, with deficits particularly documented in facial emotion recognition (FER). However, little is known about the relationship between PLEs and FER abilities, with only one previous prospective study examining the association between these abilities in childhood and reported PLEs in adolescence. The current study was a cross-sectional investigation of the association between PLEs and FER in a sample of Irish adolescents.MethodThe Adolescent Psychotic-Like Symptom Screener (APSS), a self-report measure of PLEs, and the Penn Emotion Recognition-40 Test (Penn ER-40), a measure of facial emotion recognition, were completed by 793 children aged 10–13 years.ResultsChildren who reported PLEs performed significantly more poorly on FER (β=−0.03, p=0.035). Recognition of sad faces was the major driver of effects, with children performing particularly poorly when identifying this expression (β=−0.08, p=0.032).ConclusionsThe current findings show that PLEs are associated with poorer FER. Further work is needed to elucidate causal relationships with implications for the design of future interventions for those at risk of developing psychosis.

Facial Emotion Recognition Deficit in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer Disease

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 389-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilaria Spoletini ◽  
Camillo Marra ◽  
Fulvia Di Iulio ◽  
Walter Gianni ◽  
Giuseppe Sancesario ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Mild Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Alzheimer Disease ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Facial Emotion Recognition ◽  
Facial Emotion

Neural links between facial emotion recognition and cognitive impairment in presbycusis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chama Belkhiria ◽  
Rodrigo C. Vergara ◽  
Melissa Martinez ◽  
Paul H. Delano ◽  
Carolina Delgado
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Facial Emotion Recognition ◽  
Facial Emotion

scholarly journals Perception of emotions in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s dementia: does intensity matter?

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maaike Waanders-Oude Elferink ◽  
Ilse van Tilborg ◽  
Roy P.C. Kessels
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Mild Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Emotion Perception ◽  
Alzheimer’S Dementia ◽  
Facial Emotion Recognition ◽  
Facial Emotion ◽  
Alzheimer's Dementia ◽  
Pubmed Database ◽  
Emotion Intensity

AbstractBackground: To provide a review of the literature on the perception of emotion in Alzheimer’s dementia (AD) and Mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and to evaluate if emotion intensity matters. Methodology: A systematic literature search of PubMed database was carried out using combinations or truncated versions of the keywords “MCI”, ”Alzheimer”, “emotion recognition”, “facial emotion recognition”, “social cognition” or “emotion perception”. Twenty-eight articles were found to meet the inclusion criteria. Results: Overall, AD patients performed worse on emotion perception than MCI patients and healthy controls. Half of the studies found an emotion-specific deficit for MCI patients on the emotions anger, sadness and fear. However, studies taking emotion intensity into account are still scarce. Conclusions: An emotion-intensity based approach may be more sensitive to detect subtle impairments in facial emotion recognition. Future studies need to take emotion intensity into account and also consider confounding factors such as overall cognition and mood.

Facial emotion recognition in patients with subjective cognitive decline and mild cognitive impairment

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 477-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Pietschnig ◽  
R. Aigner-Wöber ◽  
N. Reischenböck ◽  
I. Kryspin-Exner ◽  
D. Moser ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Mild Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Cognitive Decline ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Recognition Performance ◽  
Test Battery ◽  
Facial Emotion Recognition ◽  
Facial Emotion ◽  
Subjective Cognitive Decline ◽  
Healthy Controls

ABSTRACTBackground:Deficits in facial emotion recognition (FER) have been shown to substantially impair several aspects in everyday life of affected individuals (e.g. social functioning). Presently, we aim at assessing differences in emotion recognition performance in three patient groups suffering from mild forms of cognitive impairment compared to healthy controls.Methods:Performance on a concise emotion recognition test battery (VERT-K) of 68 patients with subjective cognitive decline (SCD), 44 non-amnestic (non-aMCI), and 25 amnestic patients (aMCI) with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) was compared with an age-equivalent sample of 138 healthy controls all of which were recruited within the framework of the Vienna Conversion to Dementia Study. Additionally, patients and controls underwent individual assessment using a comprehensive neuropsychological test battery examining attention, executive functioning, language, and memory (NTBV), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), and a measure of premorbid IQ (WST).Results:Type of diagnosis showed a significant effect on emotion recognition performance, indicating progressively deteriorating results as severity of diagnosis increased. Between-groups effect sizes were substantial, showing non-trivial effects in all comparisons (Cohen's ds from −0.30 to −0.83) except for SCD versus controls. Moreover, emotion recognition performance was higher in women and positively associated with premorbid IQ.Conclusions:Our findings indicate substantial effects of progressive neurological damage on emotion recognition in patients. Importantly, emotion recognition deficits were observable in non-amnestic patients as well, thus conceivably suggesting associations between decreased recognition performance and global cognitive decline. Premorbid IQ appears to act as protective factor yielding lesser deficits in patients showing higher IQs.

scholarly journals Facial emotion recognition ability: psychiatry nurses versus nurses from other departments

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Gozde Gultekin ◽  
Zeliha Kincir ◽  
Merve Kurt ◽  
Yasir Catal ◽  
Asli Acil ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Basic Element ◽  
Facial Emotion Recognition ◽  
Facial Emotion ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Emotional Cues ◽  
Recognition Ability ◽  
Emotion Recognition Ability ◽  
Accuracy Rates

Purpose: Facial emotion recognition is a basic element in non-verbal communication. Although some researchers have shown that recognizing facial expressions may be important in the interaction between doctors and patients, there are no studies concerning facial emotion recognition in nurses. Here, we aimed to investigate facial emotion recognition ability in nurses and compare the abilities between nurses from psychiatry and other departments. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, sixty seven nurses were divided into two groups according to their departments: psychiatry (n=31); and, other departments (n=36). A Facial Emotion Recognition Test, constructed from a set of photographs from Ekman and Friesen's book “Pictures of Facial Affect”, was administered to all participants. Results: In whole group, the highest mean accuracy rate of recognizing facial emotion was the happy (99.14%) while the lowest accurately recognized facial expression was fear (47.71%). There were no significant differences between two groups among mean accuracy rates in recognizing happy, sad, fear, angry, surprised facial emotion expressions (for all, p>0.05). The ability of recognizing disgusted and neutral facial emotions tended to be better in other nurses than psychiatry nurses (p=0.052 and p=0.053, respectively) Conclusion: This study was the first that revealed indifference in the ability of FER between psychiatry nurses and non-psychiatry nurses. In medical education curricula throughout the world, no specific training program is scheduled for recognizing emotional cues of patients. We considered that improving the ability of recognizing facial emotion expression in medical stuff might be beneficial in reducing inappropriate patient-medical stuff interaction.

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