The effects of oxytocin on fear recognition in patients with schizophrenia and in healthy controls

Individuals who suffer from schizophrenia often show a marked deficit in recognition of emotional facial expressions, as part of broader impairment of social cognition. Research has shown that recognition of negative emotions, specifically fear recognition, is particularly impaired among patients wi...

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Main Authors: Meytal eFischer-Shofty, Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory, Yechiel eLevkovitz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2013.00127/full