Psychiatry Research
Volume 151, Issue 1 , Pages 67-76 , 30 May 2007

Accuracy and intensity of posed emotional expressions in unmedicated schizophrenia patients: Vocal and facial channels

  • Katherine M. Putnam

      Affiliations

    • National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare System and Division of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. VA Boston Healthcare System, National Center for PTSD, 150 South Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts, 02130, USA. Tel.: +1 857 364 4267; fax: +1 857 364 4501.
    • ,
  • Ann M. Kring

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

Received 20 May 2004 ,Revised 25 May 2006 ,Accepted 12 September 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2006.09.010

Psychiatry Research
Volume 151, Issue 1 , Pages 67-76 , 30 May 2007

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