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Emotion perception in obsessive–compulsive disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2009

VASILIS P. BOZIKAS ,
MARY H. KOSMIDIS ,
MARIA GIANNAKOU ,
MIHALIS SAITIS ,
KOSTAS FOKAS  and
GEORGE GARYFALLOS
VASILIS P. BOZIKAS*
Affiliation:
1st Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
MARY H. KOSMIDIS
Affiliation:
Neuropsychology Group, School of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
MARIA GIANNAKOU
Affiliation:
Neuropsychology Group, School of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
MIHALIS SAITIS
Affiliation:
Community Mental Health Center, Northwest Sector of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
KOSTAS FOKAS
Affiliation:
2nd Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
GEORGE GARYFALLOS
Affiliation:
2nd Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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*Correspondence and reprint requests to: Vasilis P. Bozikas, 19 Iatrou Magou Str, 58100 Giannitsa, Greece. E-mail: vpbozikas@oneway.gr.
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Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the ability to perceive facial and vocal affect in a group of patients with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) and to explore the specific emotions that might be troublesome for them. Participants were 25 patients with OCD and 25 healthy controls, matched for age, education, and gender. They were assessed with computerized tests of affect perception using visual faces [Kinney’s Affect Matching Test (KAMT)], visual everyday scenarios [Fantie’s Cartoon Test (FCT)], and prosody [Affective Prosody Test (APT)], as well as a facial recognition test [Kinney’s Identity Matching Test (KIMT)]. Severity of OCD symptoms in the patient group was measured with the Yale–Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale. Patients with OCD were not impaired in the perception of emotion, in either the visual [still photographs (KAMT) or sketches of everyday scenarios (FCT)] or the vocal (APT) modality, as compared with age-, sex-, and education-matched healthy individuals. Moreover, patients with OCD did not differ from healthy individuals in discriminating facial identity (KIMT). With regard to each emotion type separately, patients performed equally well as healthy individuals in all the emotions examined. Emotion processing of both facial expressions and prosody does not appear to be deficient in patients with OCD (JINS, 2009, 15, 148–153).

Keywords

EmotionFacial affectAffective prosodyObsessive–compulsive disorder
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Brief Communications
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Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , January 2009 , pp. 148 - 153
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Copyright © INS 2009

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