Facial and vocal affect perception in people at ultra-high risk of psychosis, first-episode schizophrenia and healthy controls.

摘要: Aim: The study aims to investigate affect recognition in young people at different stages of psychotic illness. Methods: Seventy-nine ultra-high risk patients, 30 first-episode schizophrenia patients and healthy control subjects completed a facial labelling test an affective prosody test. Psychiatric symptoms were assessed using the Positive Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS). Results: We observed significant impairments vocal emotion both clinical groups compared with group. These group differences remained when age, sex education taken into account. Conclusions: findings suggest that may be independent stage illness schizophrenia. Deficits present before full expression illness, contribute social cognition functioning deficits apparent emerging disorders.