Institute of Psychology, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Psychiatry Res. 2011 Dec 30;190(2-3):375-8. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2011.06.015. Epub 2011 Jul 13.
It has been repeatedly shown that alcohol dependence is associated with emotional impairments, particularly for emotional facial expression decoding. Nevertheless, most earlier studies focused on basic emotions and did not explore more subtle affective states. In order to obtain a more accurate evaluation, and in view of earlier results showing impaired performance for this task among high-risk children of alcohol-dependent participants, the "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" test was used here to explore emotional recognition in alcohol dependence. We showed that the deficit described earlier for basic negative emotions is (1) generalizable to complex and positive emotions; and (2) specific for emotional features. This strengthens the proposition of a general face recognition impairment in alcohol dependence.
已经反复证明，酒精依赖与情绪障碍有关，尤其是在情绪面部表情解码方面。然而，大多数早期研究都集中在基本情绪上，并没有探索更微妙的情感状态。为了更准确地评估，并且鉴于早期研究结果表明，酒精依赖参与者的高危儿童在这项任务中的表现受损，这里使用“读心测试”来探索酒精依赖中的情绪识别。我们表明，之前描述的基本负性情绪缺陷是（1）可推广到复杂和正性情绪；和（2）对情绪特征具有特异性。这加强了在酒精依赖中存在一般性面部识别障碍的观点。
