Sex differences in facial emotion recognition in health and psychotic disorders

Cognitive Neuropsychiatry
Sanja Andric PetrovicNadja P Maric

Abstract

Previous studies examining sex-differences in facial emotion recognition (FER) in psychosis yielded inconsistent results. Although females are considered to be superior in FER in health, it remains unclear whether the specific sex-difference is present in psychosis. We aimed to examine whether women and men differ in FER ability in health and in psychosis, and to explore potential sex differences in the illness' effects on FER. Remitted psychotic patients and controls were assessed using the CANTAB Emotion Recognition Task (ERT) examining accuracies/response latencies in identifying basic emotional expressions. General linear model was performed to assess the effects of group, sex and their interactions on ERT performance. Healthy females showed FER advantage in comparison to healthy males, while the aforementioned sex-difference was not observed in remitted psychotic patients. Our results also demonstrated the existence of overall FER deficit in psychosis in comparison to healthy controls, as well as the differential illness' effects on the recognition accuracy of facial expression of anger in males and females-suggesting that females with psychotic disorders undergo more profound deterioration of FER ability than their male c...Continue Reading

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Feb 11, 2021·Progress in Neuro-psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry·Stefan JeroticNadja P Maric

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