How do social factors relate to blunted facial affect in schizophrenia? A digital phenotyping study using ambulatory video recordings.

ABSTRACT: Clinical interviews and laboratory-based emotional induction paradigms provide consistent evidence that facial affect is blunted in many individuals with schizophrenia. Although it is clear that blunted facial affect is not a by-product of diminished emotional experience in schizophrenia, factors contributing to blunted affect remain unclear. The current study used a combination of ambulatory video recordings that were evaluated via computerized facial affect analysis and concurrently completed ecological momentary assessment surveys to assess whether blunted affect reflects insufficient reactivity to affective or contextual factors. Specifically, whether individuals with schizophrenia require more intense affective experiences to produce expression, or whether they are less reactive to so

SUBMITTER: Cowan T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10036138 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature