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Recognition of Facial Emotions in Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Christian G. Kohler ,
Travis H. Turner ,
Raquel E. Gur  and
Ruben C. Gur
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Abstract

Recognition of facial emotions represents an important aspect of interpersonal communication and is governed by select neural substrates. We present data on emotion recognition in healthy young adults utilizing a novel set of color photographs of evoked universal emotions. In addition, we review the recent literature on emotion recognition in psychiatric and neurologic disorders, and studies that compare different disorders.

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Review Article
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CNS Spectrums , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , April 2004 , pp. 267 - 274
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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