stability of facial affective expressions in schizophrenia精神分裂症的稳定的面部情绪表情.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Schizophrenia Research and Treatment Volume 2012, Article ID 867424, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2012/867424 Clinical Study Stability of Facial Affective Expressions in Schizophrenia H. Fatouros-Bergman,1, 2, 3 J. Spang,4 J. Merten,4 G. Preisler,2 and A. Werbart2 1 Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Center for Psychiatric Research, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden 2 Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden 3 ¨ Psychiatric Research Centre, 701 16 Orebro, Sweden 4 Universitat des Saarland, 66 123 Saarbrucken, Germany ¨ ¨ Correspondence should be addressed to H. Fatouros-Bergman, helena.fatouros-bergman@ki.se Received 13 November 2011; Revised 9 January 2012; Accepted 17 January 2012 Academic Editor: Marek Kubicki Copyright © 2012 H. Fatouros-Bergman 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. Thirty-two videorecorded interviews were conducted by two interviewers with eight patients diagnosed with schizophrenia. Each patient was interviewed four times: three weekly interviews by the first interviewer and one additional interview by the second interviewer. 64 selected sequences where the patients were speaking about psychotic experiences were scored for facial affective behaviour with Emotion Facial Action Coding System (EMFACS). In accordance with previous research, the results show that patients diagnosed with schizophrenia express negative facial affectivity. Facial affective behaviour seems not to be dependen