Psychiatry Research
Volume 169, Issue 2 , Pages 101-106 , 30 September 2009

Impaired recognition of happy, sad and neutral expressions in schizophrenia is emotion, but not valence, specific and context dependent

  • Henry Silver

      Affiliations

    • Brain Behavior Laboratory, Sha'ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Hadera, Israel
    • Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Sha'ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Mobile Post Hefer 38814, Israel. Tel.: +972 4 6278160; fax: +972 4 6278004.
    • ,
  • Warren Bilker

      Affiliations

    • Schizophrenia Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    • Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    • ,
  • Craig Goodman

      Affiliations

    • Brain Behavior Laboratory, Sha'ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Hadera, Israel

Received 3 August 2008 ,Revised 10 November 2008 ,Accepted 18 November 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2008.11.017

Psychiatry Research
Volume 169, Issue 2 , Pages 101-106 , 30 September 2009

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