Psychiatry Research
Volume 150, Issue 1 , Pages 33-41 , 28 February 2007

Impaired emotional facial expression recognition in alcoholics: Are these deficits specific to emotional cues?

  • Marie-Line Foisy

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Free University of Brussels, Brugmann Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Laboratoire de Psychologie Médicale, CHU Brugmann, Place A. Van Gehuchten, 4, B-1020 Bruxelles, Belgium. Tel.: +32 2 477 27 05; fax: +32 2 477 21 62.
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  • Charles Kornreich

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Free University of Brussels, Brugmann Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Laboratoire de Psychologie Médicale, CHU Brugmann, Place A. Van Gehuchten, 4, B-1020 Bruxelles, Belgium. Tel.: +32 2 477 27 05; fax: +32 2 477 21 62.
    • ,
  • Cédric Petiau

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Free University of Brussels, Brugmann Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
    • Department of Psychology, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
    • ,
  • Agathe Parez

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
    • ,
  • Catherine Hanak

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Free University of Brussels, Brugmann Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
    • ,
  • Paul Verbanck

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Free University of Brussels, Brugmann Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
    • ,
  • Isidore Pelc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Free University of Brussels, Brugmann Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
    • ,
  • Pierre Philippot

      Affiliations

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

Received 11 July 2005 ,Revised 25 November 2005 ,Accepted 29 December 2005.

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PII: S0165-1781(06)00002-3

doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2005.12.008

Psychiatry Research
Volume 150, Issue 1 , Pages 33-41 , 28 February 2007

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