Bozikas Vasilis P, Kosmidis Mary H, Anezoulaki Dimitra, Giannakou Maria, Andreou Christina, Karavatos Athanasios
Department of Pyschiatry, Aristotle University of Thesaloniki, Greece.
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2006 Winter;18(1):81-5. doi: 10.1176/jnp.18.1.81.
The authors aimed to explore schizophrenia patients' ability to perceive affective prosody. Specifically, certain emotions that may be more troublesome for patients and possible gender differences in prosody perception were assessed. Thirty six schizophrenia patients and 32 age-, education-, and gender-matched healthy comparison subjects assessed on an affective prosody test were examined. Patients were impaired on recognition of affective prosody overall, and their difficulties with prosody perception may be attributed to those emotions with negative valence, specifically anger and sadness. Findings revealed that only male patients were impaired on prosody perception. Deficits in the perception of affective prosody were principally evident in emotions with negative valence and male patients with schizophrenia. Future studies should explore the influence of these deficits on social and interpersonal functioning more directly.
作者旨在探究精神分裂症患者感知情感韵律的能力。具体而言，评估了某些可能对患者来说更具困扰性的情绪以及韵律感知中可能存在的性别差异。对36名精神分裂症患者和32名年龄、教育程度及性别匹配的健康对照受试者进行了情感韵律测试。总体而言，患者在情感韵律识别方面存在障碍，他们在韵律感知方面的困难可能归因于具有负性效价的情绪，尤其是愤怒和悲伤。研究结果显示，只有男性患者在韵律感知方面存在障碍。情感韵律感知缺陷主要在具有负性效价的情绪以及男性精神分裂症患者中明显。未来的研究应更直接地探究这些缺陷对社会和人际功能的影响。
