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SynthesisFrontiers in psychiatry2021

Facial Emotion Recognition in Schizophrenia.

Zhiyun Gao, Wentao Zhao, Sha Liu, Zhifen Liu, Chengxiang Yang, Yong Xu

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Synthesis in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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58citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

58 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 96 citations in OpenAlex.

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  19. Facial Emotion Recognition and its Associations With Psychological Well-Being Across Four Schizotypal Dimensions: a Cross-Sectional Study.Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Zhiyun GaoDepartment of Psychiatry, First Hospital/First Clinical Medical College of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China.
Wentao ZhaoDepartment of Psychiatry, First Hospital/First Clinical Medical College of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China.
Sha LiuDepartment of Psychiatry, First Hospital/First Clinical Medical College of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China.
Zhifen LiuDepartment of Psychiatry, First Hospital/First Clinical Medical College of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China.
Chengxiang YangDepartment of Psychiatry, First Hospital/First Clinical Medical College of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China.
Yong XuDepartment of Psychiatry, First Hospital/First Clinical Medical College of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China.
First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University · CNShanxi Medical University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Deficits in facial emotion recognition are one of the most common cognitive impairments, and they have been extensively studied in various psychiatric disorders, especially in schizophrenia. However, there is still a lack of conclusive evidence about the factors associated with schizophrenia and impairment at each stage of the disease, which poses a challenge to the clinical management of patients. Based on this, we summarize facial emotion cognition among patients with schizophrenia, introduce the internationally recognized Bruce-Young face recognition model, and review the behavioral and event-related potential studies on the recognition of emotions at each stage of the face recognition process, including suggestions for the future direction of clinical research to explore the underlying mechanisms of schizophrenia.

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disease durationexpression connotation decoding stagefacial emotion recognitionfacial structure coding stagenegative-positive symptomsschizophreniavisual processing beginning stage

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PMID34017272
PMCPMC8129182
OpenAlexW3159040308

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