Facial emotion recognition and its relationship to subjective and functional outcomes in remitted patients with bipolar I disorder

Abstract

These findings demonstrate deficits in experiencing and recognizing emotions in BD patients who are in remission and underscore the relevance of these deficits in the psychosocial context.

Deficits in recognition, identification, and discrimination of facial emotions in patients with bipolar disorder

“…22 On the other hand, the present work disagrees with previous studies that reject the existence of this deficit, although it should be taken into account that the small sample sizes of some of these studies (e.g., n=17, 23 n=21 24 ), reduces statistical power and, consequently, the possibility of capturing small and medium effect sizes, as is the case.…”

An individual task meta-analysis of social cognition in euthymic bipolar disorders

“…When these reports were examined further, only 26 met all the selection criteria. Seven of them were excluded as they were based on the same sample used in other studies (Martino et al, 2008;Konstantakopoulos et al, 2010Konstantakopoulos et al, , 2011Burdick et al, 2011;Hoertnagl et al, 2011;Ioannidi et al, 2011;Ibañez et al, 2012). Finally, 19 reports comparing the social cognitive performance of 712 BD patients (mean age: 40.54 years) with that of 664 healthy controls (mean age: 39.25) were included (Table 1).…”

Auditory-prosodic processing in bipolar disorder; from sensory perception to emotion

“…Indeed, there is growing support for the notion that intact social cognition plays a vital role in healthy psychosocial function (Hoertnagl et al, 2011;Martino et al, 2011). Future studies would do well to examine the relationship shared between emotional prosody recognition and quality of life or social and interpersonal functioning in BD.…”