Transdiagnostic deviant facial recognition for implicit negative emotion in autism and schizophrenia
© 2017 Elsevier B.V. and ECNP. Impaired facial affect recognition (FAR) is observed in schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and has been linked to amygdala and fusiform gyrus dysfunction. ASD patient's impairments seem to be more pronounced during implicit rather than explicit FAR,...
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| author | Ciaramidaro, A. Bolte, Sven Schlitt, S. Hainz, D. Poustka, F. Weber, B. Freitag, C. Walter, H. |
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| description | © 2017 Elsevier B.V. and ECNP. Impaired facial affect recognition (FAR) is observed in schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and has been linked to amygdala and fusiform gyrus dysfunction. ASD patient's impairments seem to be more pronounced during implicit rather than explicit FAR, whereas for schizophrenia data are inconsistent. However, there are no studies comparing both patient groups in an identical design. The aim of this three-group study was to identify (i) whether FAR alterations are equally present in both groups, (ii) whether they are present rather during implicit or explicit FAR, (iii) and whether they are conveyed by similar or disorder-specific neural mechanisms. Using fMRI, we investigated neural activation during explicit and implicit negative and neutral FAR in 33 young-adult individuals with ASD, 20 subjects with paranoid-schizophrenia and 25 IQ- and gender-matched controls individuals. Differences in activation patterns between each clinical group and controls, respectively were found exclusively for implicit FAR in amygdala and fusiform gyrus. In addition, the ASD group additionally showed reduced activations in medial prefrontal cortex (PFC), bilateral dorso-lateral PFC, ventro-lateral PFC, posterior-superior temporal sulcus and left temporo-parietal junction. Although subjects with ASD showed more widespread altered activation patterns, a direct comparison between both patient groups did not show disorder-specific deficits in neither patient group. In summary, our findings are consistent with a common neural deficit during implicit negative facial affect recognition in schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorders. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-624812018-02-01T05:57:29Z Transdiagnostic deviant facial recognition for implicit negative emotion in autism and schizophrenia Ciaramidaro, A. Bolte, Sven Schlitt, S. Hainz, D. Poustka, F. Weber, B. Freitag, C. Walter, H. © 2017 Elsevier B.V. and ECNP. Impaired facial affect recognition (FAR) is observed in schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and has been linked to amygdala and fusiform gyrus dysfunction. ASD patient's impairments seem to be more pronounced during implicit rather than explicit FAR, whereas for schizophrenia data are inconsistent. However, there are no studies comparing both patient groups in an identical design. The aim of this three-group study was to identify (i) whether FAR alterations are equally present in both groups, (ii) whether they are present rather during implicit or explicit FAR, (iii) and whether they are conveyed by similar or disorder-specific neural mechanisms. Using fMRI, we investigated neural activation during explicit and implicit negative and neutral FAR in 33 young-adult individuals with ASD, 20 subjects with paranoid-schizophrenia and 25 IQ- and gender-matched controls individuals. Differences in activation patterns between each clinical group and controls, respectively were found exclusively for implicit FAR in amygdala and fusiform gyrus. In addition, the ASD group additionally showed reduced activations in medial prefrontal cortex (PFC), bilateral dorso-lateral PFC, ventro-lateral PFC, posterior-superior temporal sulcus and left temporo-parietal junction. Although subjects with ASD showed more widespread altered activation patterns, a direct comparison between both patient groups did not show disorder-specific deficits in neither patient group. In summary, our findings are consistent with a common neural deficit during implicit negative facial affect recognition in schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorders. 2017 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/62481 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2017.12.005 restricted |
| spellingShingle | Ciaramidaro, A. Bolte, Sven Schlitt, S. Hainz, D. Poustka, F. Weber, B. Freitag, C. Walter, H. Transdiagnostic deviant facial recognition for implicit negative emotion in autism and schizophrenia |
| title | Transdiagnostic deviant facial recognition for implicit negative emotion in autism and schizophrenia |
| title_full | Transdiagnostic deviant facial recognition for implicit negative emotion in autism and schizophrenia |
| title_fullStr | Transdiagnostic deviant facial recognition for implicit negative emotion in autism and schizophrenia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Transdiagnostic deviant facial recognition for implicit negative emotion in autism and schizophrenia |
| title_short | Transdiagnostic deviant facial recognition for implicit negative emotion in autism and schizophrenia |
| title_sort | transdiagnostic deviant facial recognition for implicit negative emotion in autism and schizophrenia |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/62481 |