title: Common impairments of emotional facial expression recognition in schizophrenia across French and Japanese cultures.
abstract: To address whether the recognition of emotional facial expressions is impaired in schizophrenia across different cultures, patients with schizophrenia and age-matched normal controls in France and Japan were tested with a labeling task of emotional facial expressions and a matching task of unfamiliar faces. Schizophrenia patients in both France and Japan were less accurate in labeling fearful facial expressions. There was no correlation between the scores of facial emotion labeling and face matching. These results suggest that the impaired recognition of emotional facial expressions in schizophrenia is common across different cultures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine Aichi, Japan ; Kouai Hospital Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Okada
authors.affiliation: Health and Medical Service Center, Shiga University Shiga, Japan ; Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne Paris, France.
authors.forename: Yasutaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kubota
authors.affiliation: Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University Aichi, Japan.
authors.forename: Wataru
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine Kyoto, Japan.
authors.forename: Toshiya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Murai
authors.affiliation: Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne Paris, France.
authors.forename: Fréderic
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pellion
authors.affiliation: Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne Paris, France.
authors.forename: Françoise
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gorog
keywords: France; Japan; cross-culture; emotional facial expression; schizophrenia