title: Facial emotion recognition and sleep in mentally disordered patients: A natural experiment in a high security hospital.
abstract: We investigated the relationship between a change in sleep quality and facial emotion recognition accuracy in a group of mentally-disordered inpatients at a secure forensic psychiatric unit. Patients whose sleep improved over time also showed improved facial emotion recognition while patients who showed no sleep improvement showed no change in emotion recognition.
authors.affiliation: Ashworth Research Centre, Ashworth Hospital, Mersey Care NHS Trust, Maghull L31 1HW, UK; School of Psychology, University of Central Lancashire, Preston PR1 2HE, UK. Electronic address: schu@uclan.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Simon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chu
authors.affiliation: Ashworth Research Centre, Ashworth Hospital, Mersey Care NHS Trust, Maghull L31 1HW, UK; School of Psychology, University of Central Lancashire, Preston PR1 2HE, UK.
authors.forename: Kimberley
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: McNeill
authors.affiliation: Ashworth Research Centre, Ashworth Hospital, Mersey Care NHS Trust, Maghull L31 1HW, UK; School of Psychology, University of Central Lancashire, Preston PR1 2HE, UK.
authors.forename: Jane L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Ireland
authors.affiliation: Ashworth Research Centre, Ashworth Hospital, Mersey Care NHS Trust, Maghull L31 1HW, UK.
authors.forename: Inti
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Qurashi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005149:Facial Expression; D000066499:Facial Recognition / Q000502:physiology*; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Emotion-recognition; Sleep