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Published on: July 31, 2016
Facial affect recognition in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis
Jean Addington1, David Penn, Scott W Woods
1Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 250 College Street, Toronto, Ontario M5T 1R8, Canada. jean_addington@camh.net
Abstract:
Facial affect discrimination and identification were assessed in 86 clinical high-risk individuals and compared with 50 individuals with first-episode psychosis, 53 with multi-episode schizophrenia and 55 non-psychiatric controls. On the identification task the non-psychiatric controls performed significantly better than all other groups, and on discrimination significantly better than both patient groups. Deficits in facial affect recognition appear to be present before the onset of psychosis and may be a vulnerability marker.
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