title: Subjective disturbance of perception is related to facial affect recognition in schizophrenia.
abstract: To examine the relationship between facial affect recognition (FAR) and subjective perceptual disturbances (SPDs), we assessed SPDs in 82 patients with DSM-IV schizophrenia (44 with first-episode psychosis [FEP] and 38 with multiple episodes [ME]) using two subscales of the Frankfurt Complaint Questionnaire (FCQ), WAS (simple perception) and WAK (complex perception). Emotional judgment ability was assessed using Ekman and Friesen's FAR task. Impaired recognition of emotion correlated with scores on the WAS but not on the WAK. The association was significant in the entire group and in the ME group. FAR was more impaired in the ME than in the FEP group. Our findings suggest that there is a relationship between SPDs and FAR impairment in schizophrenia, particularly in multiple-episode patients.
authors.affiliation: NESMOS Department (Neurosciences, Mental Health and Sense Organs), School of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University-Rome, 2nd Medical School, Sant'Andrea Hospital, Via di Grottarossa 1035-1039, Rome, Italy. anna.comparelli@uniroma1.it
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Comparelli
authors.forename: Antonella
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: De Carolis
authors.forename: Valentina
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Corigliano
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Romano
authors.forename: Giorgio D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Kotzalidis
authors.forename: Chiara
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Campana
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ferracuti
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tatarelli
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Girardi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*