Department of Psychiatry, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
Psychopathology. 2012;45(5):294-9. doi: 10.1159/000334252. Epub 2012 Jul 12.
Whether patients with panic disorder behave differently or not when recognizing the facial expressions of emotion remains unsettled.
We tested 21 outpatients with panic disorder and 34 healthy subjects, with a photo set from the Matsumoto and Ekman Japanese and Caucasian facial expressions of emotion, which includes anger, contempt, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise.
Compared to the healthy subjects, patients showed lower accuracies when recognizing disgust and fear, but a higher accuracy when recognizing surprise.
These results suggest that the altered specificity to these emotions leads tso self-awareness mechanisms to prevent further emotional reactions in panic disorder patients.
惊恐障碍患者在识别情绪的面部表情时是否表现不同，目前尚无定论。
我们测试了 21 名惊恐障碍门诊患者和 34 名健康受试者，使用松本和埃克曼的日本和高加索人脸表情照片集，包括愤怒、轻蔑、厌恶、恐惧、快乐、悲伤和惊讶。
与健康受试者相比，患者在识别厌恶和恐惧时的准确率较低，但在识别惊讶时的准确率较高。
这些结果表明，对这些情绪的特异性改变导致惊恐障碍患者的自我意识机制阻止进一步的情绪反应。
