title: The "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" test as a new way to explore complex emotions decoding in alcohol dependence.
abstract: It has been repeatedly shown that alcohol dependence is associated with emotional impairments, particularly for emotional facial expression decoding. Nevertheless, most earlier studies focused on basic emotions and did not explore more subtle affective states. In order to obtain a more accurate evaluation, and in view of earlier results showing impaired performance for this task among high-risk children of alcohol-dependent participants, the "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" test was used here to explore emotional recognition in alcohol dependence. We showed that the deficit described earlier for basic negative emotions is (1) generalizable to complex and positive emotions; and (2) specific for emotional features. This strengthens the proposition of a general face recognition impairment in alcohol dependence.
authors: Institute of Psychology, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. pierre.maurage@uclouvain.be
authors: Pierre
authors: P
authors: Maurage
authors: Delphine
authors: D
authors: Grynberg
authors: Xavier
authors: X
authors: Noël
authors: Frédéric
authors: F
authors: Joassin
authors: Catherine
authors: C
authors: Hanak
authors: Paul
authors: P
authors: Verbanck
authors: Olivier
authors: O
authors: Luminet
authors: Philippe
authors: P
authors: de Timary
authors: Salvatore
authors: S
authors: Campanella
authors: Pierre
authors: P
authors: Philippot
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology*; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires