Attentional and emotional functioning in schizophrenia patients treated with conventional and atypical antipsychotic drugs

Kucharska-Pietura, Katarzyna; Tylec, Aneta; Czernikiewicz, Andrzej; Mortimer, Ann

doi:10.12659/msm.882202

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“…All patients were medicated with antipsychotics at the time of evaluation; however, available evidence suggests a positive influence of atypical antipsychotics in attentional processes, improving deficits already present in untreated first-episode patients (e.g., Keedy et al, 2015;Kucharska-Pietura et al, 2012). Further studies should also control for effects of medication.…”

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RETRACTED: The effects of perceptual load in processing emotional facial expression in psychotic disorders

Grave

Soares

Morais

et al. 2017

Psychiatry Research

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A B S T R A C TPsychotic disorders are some of the most severe psychiatric conditions. Patients have difficulties in identifying facial expressions and appear to be highly sensitive to the presence of emotional distractors. Yet, no study has investigated whether perceptual load modulates the interference of emotional distractors. Our goal was to test whether psychotic patients were more sensitive to irrelevant emotional stimulus, even when the task demands a high amount of attentional resources. Twenty-two participants with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder and twenty-two healthy controls, performed a target letter discrimination task with emotional task-irrelevant stimulus (angry, happy and neutral facial expressions). Target-letters were presented among distrator-letters, which could be similar (low perceptual load) or different (high load); participants should discriminate the target-letter and ignore the facial expression. Results showed that patients were more prone to distraction by task-irrelevant stimulus, especially under high load, suggesting difficulties in attention control. Moreover, in psychotic patients, happy faces caused higher interference with the task, whereas neutral and angry faces resulted in less interference. These findings could provide innovative approaches regarding attentional deficits on social contexts in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders.

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RETRACTED: The effects of perceptual load in processing emotional facial expression in psychotic disorders

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Soares

Morais

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Psychiatry Research

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“…Several studies have found an association between affective or overall empathy and negative symptoms (Bora et al, 2008;Kucharska-Pietura et al, 2012;Lincoln et al, 2011;Shamay-Tsoory et al, 2007;Smith et al, 2014;Sparks et al, 2010); associations have also been found with positive symptoms (Konstantakopoulos et al, 2014;Lysaker et al, 2013;Smith et al, 2014;Sparks et al, 2010), depression (Abramowitz et al, 2014;Didehbani et al, 2012;Horan et al, 2015), anxiety (Achim et al, 2011), and insight (Didehbani et al, 2012;Lysaker et al, 2013;Pijnenborg et al, 2013). However, though several studies report significant relationships with symptoms, as many studies have reported no association (Corbera et al, 2013;Derntl et al, 2012a;Derntl et al, 2012b;Fresán et al, 2015;Fujino et al, 2014;Fujiwara et al, 2008;Lam et al, 2014;Lehmann et al, 2014;McCormick et al, 2012;Montag et al, 2007).…”

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Affective empathy in schizophrenia: a meta-analysis

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Lysaker²,

Minor

et al. 2016

Schizophrenia Research

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“…To summarize, when comparing chronically ill people with schizophrenia to healthy controls, only two of the 22 studies that examined sex differences provided evidence that women with schizophrenia outperform men on FEP tasks. From our PubMed search of more recent studies not included in the meta-analyses, a total of 16 of the 20 studies that examined adults with chronic schizophrenia either did not report on sex differences or controlled for sex in their FEP analyses [53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67] , with one study including an all-male sample [68] . Of the remaining four studies, three studies did not find sex differences on an FEP identification task [69][70][71] .…”

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Facial emotion perception in schizophrenia: Does sex matter?

Mote

Kring

2016

WJP

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AIM:To review the literature on sex differences in facial emotion perception (FEP) across the schizophrenia spectrum. METHODS:We conducted a systematic review of empirical articles that were included in five separate meta-analyses of FEP across the schizophrenia spectrum, including meta-analyses that predominantly examined adults with chronic schizophrenia, people with early (onset prior to age 18) or recent-onset (experiencing their first or second psychotic episode or illness duration less than 2 years) schizophrenia, and unaffected first-degree relatives of people with schizophrenia. We also examined articles written in English (from November 2011 through June 2015) that were not included in the aforementioned metaanalyses through a literature search in the PubMed database. All relevant articles were accessed in full text. We examined all studies to determine the sample sizes, diagnostic characteristics, demographic information, methodologies, results, and whether each individual study reported on sex differences. The results from the meta-analyses themselves as well as the individual studies are reported in tables and text. RESULTS:We retrieved 134 articles included in five separate meta-analyses and the PubMed database that examined FEP across the schizophrenia spectrum. Of these articles, 38 examined sex differences in FEP. Thirty of these studies did not find sex differences in FEP in either chronically ill adults with schizophrenia, early-onset or recently diagnosed people with schizophrenia, or first-degree relatives of people with schizophrenia. Of the eight studies that found sex differences in FEP, three found that chronically ill women outperformed men, one study found that girls with early-onset schizophrenia outperformed boys, and two studies found that women (including first-degree relatives, adults with schizophrenia, and the healthy control group) outperformed men on FEP tasks. In total, six of the eight studies that examined sex differences in FEP found that women outperformed men across the SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS Core tip: People with schizophrenia exhibit deficits in facial emotion perception (FEP) compared to healthy controls. These deficits are associated with poorer functioning and more severe symptoms. Although the literature to date suggests that there are few sex differences in FEP in schizophrenia, continued assessment of sex differences in FEP can help researchers and clinicians better understand other sex differences in the disorder and assist in treatment development aimed at improving functioning in people with schizophrenia. This review summarizes and critically evaluates the literature on FEP across the schizophrenia spectrum, focusing on the evidence related to sex differences in FEP.Mote J, Kring AM. Facial emotion perception in schizophrenia: Does sex matter? World J Psychiatr 2016; 6(2): 257-268

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Attentional and emotional functioning in schizophrenia patients treated with conventional and atypical antipsychotic drugs

Cited by 17 publications

References 32 publications

RETRACTED: The effects of perceptual load in processing emotional facial expression in psychotic disorders

RETRACTED: The effects of perceptual load in processing emotional facial expression in psychotic disorders

Affective empathy in schizophrenia: a meta-analysis

Facial emotion perception in schizophrenia: Does sex matter?

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