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Deficits in facial affect recognition in unaffected siblings of Xhosa schizophrenia patients: evidence for a neurocognitive endophenotype.
Schizophrenia research - 1 Feb 2008
Leppänen Jukka M, Niehaus Dana J H, Koen Liezl, Du Toit Elsa, Schoeman Renata, Emsley Robin
Abstract excerpt
The present study in an African Xhosa sample examined whether familial vulnerability to schizophrenia is associated with deficits in facial affect recognition. Healthy comparison subjects, unaffected siblings of schizophrenia patients, and schizophrenia patients were tested with a task requiring rapid recognition of matched positive (happy), negative (angry), and neutral facial expressions. Siblings and patients...
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