sex differences in facial, prosodic, and social context emotional recognition in early-onset schizophrenia性别差异在面部、韵律和社会环境的情感识别早发性精神分裂症.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Schizophrenia Research and Treatment Volume 2012, Article ID 584725, 12 pages doi:10.1155/2012/584725 Clinical Study Sex Differences in Facial, Prosodic, and Social Context Emotional Recognition in Early-Onset Schizophrenia Julieta Ramos-Loyo,1 Leonor Mora-Reynoso,1 ´ 2 ´ 3 Luis Miguel Sanchez-Loyo, and Virginia Medina-Hernandez 1 Instituto de Neurociencias, CUCBA, Universidad de Guadalajara, 44130 Guadalajara, JAL, Mexico 2 Departamento de Neurociencias, CUCS, Universidad de Guadalajara, 44130 Guadalajara, JAL, Mexico 3 Centro Comunitario de Salud Mental No. 1, Guadalajara, 45150 Zapopan, JAL, Mexico Correspondence should be addressed to Julieta Ramos-Loyo, jramos@cencar.udg.mx Received 22 September 2011; Revised 12 November 2011; Accepted 15 November 2011 Academic Editor: Susana Ochoa Copyright © 2012 Julieta Ramos-Loyo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The purpose of the present study was to determine sex differences in facial, prosodic, and social context emotional recognition in schizophrenia (SCH). Thirty-eight patients (SCH, 20 females) and 38 healthy controls (CON, 20 females) participated in the study. Clinical scales (BPRS and PANSS) and an Affective States Scale were applied, as well as tasks to evaluate facial, prosodic, and within a social context emotional recognition. SCH showed lower accuracy and longer response times than CON, but no significant sex differences were observed in either facial or prosody recognition. In social contex