Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Early Interv Psychiatry. 2012 Nov;6(4):450-4. doi: 10.1111/j.1751-7893.2012.00362.x. Epub 2012 Jun 1.
The study aims to investigate affect recognition in young people at different stages of psychotic illness.
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).
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.
The findings suggest that emotion recognition impairments may be independent of the stage of illness in schizophrenia. Deficits in emotion recognition may be present before the full expression of psychotic illness, and may contribute to the social cognition and social functioning deficits apparent in emerging psychotic disorders.
本研究旨在探讨不同精神病阶段的年轻人的情感识别能力。
79 名超高危患者、30 名首发精神分裂症患者和 30 名健康对照组完成了面部情感标签测试和情感韵律识别测试。使用阳性和阴性综合征量表（PANSS）评估精神症状。
我们观察到，与对照组相比，两个临床组的面部和声音情绪识别均存在明显障碍。当考虑年龄、性别和教育程度时，这些组间差异仍然显著。
研究结果表明，情绪识别障碍可能与精神分裂症的疾病阶段无关。在精神病完全表现之前，可能存在情绪识别缺陷，这可能导致在出现精神病障碍时出现明显的社会认知和社会功能缺陷。
