Yoon Sunkyung, Kim Hyang Sook, Kim Jeong-In, Lee Seunga, Lee Seung-Hwan
Clinical Emotion and Cognition Research Laboratory, Goyang, Korea.
Department of Psychology, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea.
Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2016 Mar;70(3):151-8. doi: 10.1111/pcn.12369. Epub 2015 Dec 6.
Decoding facial expression is important for psychological well-being. This study examined facial emotion recognition of simple/complex and pleasant/unpleasant emotions in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and anxiety disorders (AnD).
Patients with MDD (n = 37), AnD (n = 36) and healthy controls (HC) (n = 40) participated in this study. The recognition accuracy of emotional faces was calculated.
Patients with MDD had significantly lower recognition accuracy compared to HC. Patients with MDD exhibited lower recognition accuracy for simple emotions compared to patients with AnD and HC, and lower accuracy for complex emotions compared only to HC. Patients with AnD and HC showed comparable recognition accuracy for simple emotions, which were lower than that of patients with MDD. However, in recognition accuracy of complex emotions, AnD was not significantly different from either MDD or HC.
Patients with MDD and AnD have a distinctive difficulty with the recognition of facial expressions. The recognition of complex emotions in patients with MDD and AnD should be studied further.
解读面部表情对心理健康至关重要。本研究考察了重度抑郁症（MDD）患者和焦虑症（AnD）患者对简单/复杂及愉快/不愉快情绪的面部情绪识别能力。
MDD患者（n = 37）、AnD患者（n = 36）和健康对照者（HC）（n = 40）参与了本研究。计算情绪面孔的识别准确率。
与HC相比，MDD患者的识别准确率显著更低。与AnD患者和HC相比，MDD患者对简单情绪的识别准确率更低，且与仅与HC相比，对复杂情绪的识别准确率更低。AnD患者和HC对简单情绪的识别准确率相当，低于MDD患者。然而，在复杂情绪的识别准确率方面，AnD与MDD或HC均无显著差异。
MDD患者和AnD患者在面部表情识别方面存在独特困难。MDD患者和AnD患者对复杂情绪的识别有待进一步研究。
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