Psychiatry Research
Volume 119, Issue 3 , Pages 251-260 , 1 August 2003

Impaired emotional facial expression recognition in alcoholics, opiate dependence subjects, methadone maintained subjects and mixed alcohol-opiate antecedents subjects compared with normal controls

  • Charles Kornreich

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Free University of Brussels, Brugmann Hospital, Place Van Gehuchten 4, Brussels 1020, Belgium
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Present address: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Brugmann, Institut de Psychiatrie, place Van Gehuchten 4, 1020 Brussels, Belgium. Tel.: +32-24772705; fax: +32-24772162
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  • Marie-Line Foisy

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Free University of Brussels, Brugmann Hospital, Place Van Gehuchten 4, Brussels 1020, Belgium
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  • Pierre Philippot

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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  • Bernard Dan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Free University of Brussels, Queen Fabiola Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
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  • Juan Tecco

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Free University of Brussels, Brugmann Hospital, Place Van Gehuchten 4, Brussels 1020, Belgium
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  • Xavier Noël

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Free University of Brussels, Brugmann Hospital, Place Van Gehuchten 4, Brussels 1020, Belgium
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  • Ursula Hess

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada
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  • Isidore Pelc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Free University of Brussels, Brugmann Hospital, Place Van Gehuchten 4, Brussels 1020, Belgium
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  • Paul Verbanck

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Free University of Brussels, Brugmann Hospital, Place Van Gehuchten 4, Brussels 1020, Belgium

Received 30 August 2002 ,Revised 15 April 2003 ,Accepted 16 May 2003.

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doi: 10.1016/S0165-1781(03)00130-6

Psychiatry Research
Volume 119, Issue 3 , Pages 251-260 , 1 August 2003

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