Let's face it: Facial emotion processing is impaired in bipolar disorder

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 200-208

  Van Rheenen, Tamsyn Elizabeth ^a,b   Rossell, Susan Lee ^a,b  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b Monash University and the Alfred Hospital ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognition; Emotion; Emotion perception; Emotion recognition; Mood disorders; Neuropsychology; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COMPLICATION; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84894128464     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: 14697661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617713001367     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Abrosoft (2012). Fantamorph.
2. Addington, J., & Addington, D. (1998). Facial affect recognition and information processing in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Schizophrenia Research, 32, 171-181.
3. Ambadar, Z., Schooler, J. W., & Cohn, J. F. (2005). Deciphering the enigmatic face. Psychological Science, 16, 403-410. doi:10.1111/j.0956-7976. 2005.01548.x
4. Bozikas, V. P., Tonia, T., Fokas, K., Karavatos, A., & Kosmidis, M. H. (2006). Impaired emotion processing in remitted patients with bipolar disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 91, 53-56.
5. Brotman, M. A., Guyer, A. E., Lawson, E. S., Horsey, S. E., Rich, B. A., Dickstein, D. P., Leibenluft, E. (2008). Facial emotion labeling deficits in children and adolescents at risk for bipolar disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry, 165, 385-389.
6. Brotman, M. A., Skup, M., Rich, B. A., Blair, K. S., Pine, D. S., Blair, J. S., & Leibenluft, E. (2008). Risk for bipolar disorder is associated with face processing deficits across emotions. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 47, 1455-1461.
7. Derntl, B., Seidel, E.-M., Kryspin-Exner, I., Hasmann, A., & Dobmeier, M. (2009). Facial emotion recognition in patients with bipolar I and bipolar II disorder. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 48, 363-375. doi:10.1348/0144665093404845
8. Ekman, P., & Friesen, W. V. (1976). Pictures of facial affect. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press.
9. Feinberg, T. E., Rifkin, A., Schaffer, C., & Walker, E. (1986). Facial discrimination and emotional recognition in schizophrenia and affective disorders. Archives of General Psychiatry, 43, 276-279. doi:10.1001/archpsyc. 1986.01800030094010
10. Getz, G. E., Shear, P. K., & Strakowski, S. M. (2003). Facial affect recognition deficits in bipolar disorder. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 9, 623-632.
11. Gray, J., Venn, H., Montagne, B., Murray, L., Burt, M., Frigerio, E., Young, A. H. (2006). Bipolar patients show mood-congruent biases in sensitivity to facial expressions of emotion when exhibiting depressed symptoms, but not when exhibiting manic symptoms. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 11, 505-520. doi:10.1080/13546800544000028
12. Guyer, A. E., McClure, E. B., Adler, A. D., Brotman, M. A., Rich, B. A., Kimes, A. S., Leibenluft, E. (2007). Specificity of facial expression labeling deficits in childhood psychopathology. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 48, 863-871. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2007.01758.x
13. Harmer, C. J., Grayson, L., & Goodwin, G. M. (2002). Enhanced recognition of disgust in bipolar illness. Biological Psychiatry, 51, 298-304.
14. Hoertnagl, C. M., Muehlbacher, M., Biedermann, F., Yalcin, N., Baumgartner, S., Schwitzer, G., Hofer, A. (2011). Facial emotion recognition and its relationship to subjective and functional outcomes in remitted patients with bipolar I disorder. Bipolar Disorders, 13, 537-544. doi:10.1111/j.1399- 5618.2011. 00947.x
15. Lembke, A., & Ketter, T. A. (2002). Impaired recognition of facial emotion in mania. American Journal of Psychiatry, 159, 302-304.
16. Martino, D. J., Strejilevich, S. A., Fassi, G., Marengo, E., & Igoa, A. (2011). Theory of mind and facial emotion recognition in euthymic bipolar I and bipolar II disorders. Psychiatry Research, 189, 379-384. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2011.04.033
17. Montgomery, S. A., & Asberg, M. (1979). A new depression scale designed to be sensitive to change. British Journal of Psychiatry, 134, 382-389.
18. Neurobehavioral Systems Inc (2012). Presentation, Version 14.8.
19. Rossell, S. L., Van Rheenen, T. E., Groot, C., Gogos, A., & Joshua, N. R. (2013). Investigating affective prosody in psychosis: A study using the Comprehensive Affective Testing System. Psychiatry Research, 210, 896-900. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2013.07.037
20. Samamé, C., Martino, D. J., & Strejilevich, S. A. (2012). Social cognition in euthymic bipolar disorder: Systematic review and meta-analytic approach. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 125, 266-280. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0447.2011.01808.x
21. Schaefer, K. L., Baumann, J., Rich, B. A., Luckenbaugh, D. A., & Zarate, C. A. Jr (2010). Perception of facial emotion in adults with bipolar or unipolar depression and controls. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 44, 1229-1235.
22. Schenkel, L. S., Pavuluri, M. N., Herbener, E. S., Harral, E. M., & Sweeney, J. A. (2007). Facial emotion processing in acutely ill and euthymic patients with pediatric bipolar disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 46, 1070-1079.
23. Sheehan, D. V., Lecrubier, Y., Harnett Sheehan, K., Amorim, P., Janavs, J., Weiller, E., Dunbar, G. C. (1998). The Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI): The development and validation of a structured diagnostic psychiatric interview for DSM-IV and ICD-10. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 59, 22-33.
24. Summers, M., Papadopoulou, K., Bruno, S., Cipolotti, L., & Ron, M. A. (2006). Bipolar I and bipolar II disorder: Cognition and emotion processing. Psychological Medicine, 36, 1799-1809.
25. Van Rheenen, T. E., & Rossell, S. L. (2013a). Genetic and neurocognitive foundations of emotion abnormalities in bipolar disorder. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 18, 168-207. doi:10.1080/13546805.2012.690938
26. Van Rheenen, T. E., & Rossell, S. L. (2013b). Is the non-verbal behavioural emotion-processing profile of bipolar disorder impaired? A critical review. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 128, 163-178. doi:10.1111/acps.12125
27. Vaskinn, A., Sundet, K., Friis, S., Simonsen, C., Birkenæs, A. B., Engh, J. A., Andreassen, O. A. (2007). The effect of gender on emotion perception in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 116, 263-270. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0447.2007.00991.x
28. Vederman, A. C., Weisenbach, S. L., Rapport, L. J., Leon, H. M., Haase, B. D., Franti, L. M., McInnis, M. G. (2012). Modalityspecific alterations in the perception of emotional stimuli in bipolar disorder compared to healthy controls and major depressive disorder. Cortex, 48, 1027-1034.
29. Venn, H. R., Gray, J. M., Montagne, B., Murray, L. K., Michael Burt, D., Frigerio, E., Young, A. H. (2004). Perception of facial expressions of emotion in bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disorders, 6, 286-293. doi:10.1111/j.1399-5618. 2004.00121.x
30. Walker, E., McGuire, M., & Bettes, B. (1984). Recognition and identification of facial stimuli by schizophrenics and patients with affective disorders. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 23, 37-44. doi:10.1111/j.2044-8260.1984.tb00624.x
31. Young, R., Biggs, J., Ziegler, V., & Meyer, D. (1978). A rating scale for mania: Reliability, validity and sensitivity. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 133, 429-435. doi:10.1192/bjp. 133.5.429