Facial and vocal affect perception in people at ultra-high risk of psychosis, first-episode schizophrenia and healthy controls

GP Amminger; MR Schäfer; CM Klier; M Schlögelhofer; N Mossaheb; A Thompson; A Bechdolf; K Allott; PD Mcgorry; B Nelson

Journal article

Facial and vocal affect perception in people at ultra-high risk of psychosis, first-episode schizophrenia and healthy controls

GP Amminger, MR Schäfer, CM Klier, M Schlögelhofer, N Mossaheb, A Thompson, A Bechdolf, K Allott, PD Mcgorry, B Nelson

Early Intervention in Psychiatry | WILEY | Published : 2012

DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7893.2012.00362.x

Abstract

Aim: The study aims to investigate affect recognition in young people at different stages of psychotic illness. Methods: Seventy-nine ultra-high risk patients, 30 first-episode schizophrenia patients and 30 healthy control subjects completed a facial affect labelling test and an affective prosody recognition test. Psychiatric symptoms were assessed using the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS). Results: We observed significant impairments in facial and vocal emotion recognition in both of the clinical groups compared with the control group. These group differences remained significant when age, sex and education were taken into account. Conclusions: The findings suggest that emotion..

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Funding Acknowledgements

This study is supported by grant 03T-315 from the Stanley Medical Research Institute and by grant 9848 from the Osterreichische Nationalbank (National Bank of Austria). Dr G. Paul Amminger was supported by grant 566529 from the National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia. Dr Barnaby Nelson was supported by a NARSAD Young Investigator Award and a Ronald Phillip Griffith Fellowship. We thank Dr Jane Edwards for providing us with the emotion recognition assessment tools used in this study. We thank Dr Sherilyn Goldstone for careful editing of the final manuscript and Konstan-tinos Papageorgiou for his assistance with data collection and data entry. We thank all of the participants and their families.