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ArticlePsychiatry research2018

Sex differences in hedonic judgement of odors in schizophrenia cases and healthy controls.

Julie Walsh-Messinger, Philip S Wong, Daniel Antonius, Kevin McMahon, Lewis A Opler, Paul Michael Ramirez, Dolores Malaspina

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  1. Olfactory Dysfunction in Mental Illness.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2023
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  8. The role of hedonics in the Human Affectome.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2019
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Julie Walsh-MessingerDepartment of Psychology, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton, OH, USA. Electronic address: jmessinger1@udayton.edu.
Philip S WongDepartment of Psychology, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Daniel AntoniusDepartment of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA; University at Buffalo, State University of NY, Buffalo, NY, USA; Erie County Forensic Mental Health Services, Buffalo, NY, USA.
Kevin McMahonDepartment of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Lewis A OplerDepartment of Psychology, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Paul Michael RamirezDepartment of Psychology, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Dolores MalaspinaDepartments of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Genetics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.

Funding

Olfactory and Social Function in SchizophreniaR01MH066428 · NIMH · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI MALASPINA, DOLORES · 2004 to 2007
$1.8M
Mentoring Translational Schizophrenia ResearchersK24MH001699 · NIMH · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI MALASPINA, DOLORES · 2000 to 2009
$1.3M
Paternal Age Related Schizophrenia as a Discrete DisorderRC1MH088843 · NIMH · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI MALASPINA, DOLORES · 2009 to 2010
$979k
NIMH NIH HHS K24 MH001699NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH066428NIMH NIH HHS RC1 MH088843
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The neurocircuitries subserving affective and olfactory processes overlap, are sexually dimorphic, and show disruptions in schizophrenia, suggesting their intersection may be a window on the core process producing psychosis. This study investigated diagnostic and sex differences in hedonic judgments of odors and smell identification in 26 schizophrenia cases and 27 healthy controls. Associations between olfaction measures and psychiatric symptoms were also examined. Cases and controls had similar identification accuracy of unpleasant odors, but cases were significantly less accurate in naming pleasant odors. In cases, greater negative symptom severity was related to abnormal hedonic judgments; specifically, higher pleasantness ratings for unpleasant odors and higher unpleasantness ratings for pleasant odors. Greater positive symptom severity was associated with lower pleasantness ratings for neutral odors. Regarding sex differences, male cases and female controls rated pleasant odors as significantly more unpleasant than male controls. Correlations between depression severity and pleasantness ratings of neutral odors were in opposite directions in male and female cases. These results suggest that a normal sexual dimorphism in the circuitry for hedonic odor judgments may interact with schizophrenia pathology, supporting the utility of olfactory hedonics as a sex-specific biomarker of this pathology.

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AnhedoniaOlfactory PerceptionSchizophrenic PsychologySex FactorsAdultCase-Control StudiesFemaleHumansJudgmentMaleNegativismOdorantsSchizophreniaSeverity of Illness IndexSmell

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PMCPMC6207462

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