SynthesisSchizophrenia research2012
A meta-analysis of emotion perception and functional outcomes in schizophrenia.
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68 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 177 citations in OpenAlex.
- Emotion Processing and Its Relationship to Social Functioning and Symptoms in Psychotic Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2025Pooled it
- Meta-analysis of Face Perception in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: Evidence for Differential Impairment in Emotion Face Perception.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2024Pooled it
- European Psychiatric Association guidance on assessment of cognitive impairment in schizophrenia.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2022Pooled it
- Meta-Analysis of Sensorimotor Gating Deficits in Patients With Schizophrenia Evaluated by Prepulse Inhibition Test.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2020Pooled it
- Defeatist Performance Beliefs, Negative Symptoms, and Functional Outcome in Schizophrenia: A Meta-analytic Review.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2016Pooled it
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- Emotion Processing in Schizophrenia: Insights From a Brain Imaging Study Comparing Patients, Siblings, and Healthy Controls.Human brain mapping · 2026Trial
- Is game-based therapy effective for treating cognitive deficits in adults with schizophrenia? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial.Translational psychiatry · 2024Trial
- One-year randomized controlled trial and follow-up of integrated neurocognitive therapy for schizophrenia outpatients.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2015Trial
- Emotion identification and emotion sensitivity following interpersonal and non-interpersonal traumatic experiences: Results from the AURORA study.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Article
- International perspective on social cognition in schizophrenia: current stage and the next steps.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2025Review
- Why clinical neuropsychology matters in schizophrenia care.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Facial emotion recognition deficits are associated with hypomimia and related brain correlates in Parkinson's disease.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2024Article
- Impact of Biological Sex on Emotional Perception Among Adults With Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: Protocol for a Systematic Review.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- Identity recognition from faces and bodies in schizophrenia spectrum disorders.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2024Article
- Empathy in schizophrenia: neural alterations during emotion recognition and affective sharing.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Negative symptoms and social cognition as mediators of the relationship between neurocognition and functional outcome in schizophrenia.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Attentional biases in facial emotion processing in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2023Article
- Clinical high risk for psychosis syndrome is associated with reduced neural responding to unpleasant images.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2023Article
- Trait absorption predicts enhanced face emotion intensity discrimination among military recruits.Motivation and emotion · 2023Article
8 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
introductionEmotion perception (EP) is impaired in schizophrenia, is stable across clinical state, resistant to antipsychotic treatment and linked to symptom severity. Given its pervasive nature, there is a need to quantitatively examine whether this dysfunction impacts functional outcomes. We used a meta-analytic strategy to combine results from several studies and examine synthesized effect sizes.
methodsA Meta-analysis of Observational Studies in Epidemiology standard was used to extract data following a PubMed and PsychInfo search. Studies reporting correlations between measures of EP and functional outcomes in schizophrenia spectrum disorders were selected. The impact of potential methodological (task type), demographic (sex, age, race, education, marital status) and clinical (age of onset, duration of illness, setting, symptoms, anti-psychotic medication) moderators on effect sizes were examined.
resultsTwenty-five studies met inclusion criteria and included 1306 patients who were 37 years old, with 12 years of education, 64% male and 63% Caucasian. There was a significant relationship between EP and functional outcomes in individuals with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder, with effect sizes in the medium range. Medium to large range positive correlations were observed between emotion identification and functional outcome domains involving social problem solving, social skills and community functioning. Significant moderators included task type (emotion identification tasks), sex (% male in sample), race (% Caucasian in sample) and clinical symptoms (negative and positive).
conclusionsEmotion identification deficits are associated with functional impairments in schizophrenia and moderated by sex, race and symptoms. This has implications for treatment efforts to improve outcomes.
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