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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Forensic Psychiatry
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1358291
This article is part of the Research Topic Advances in the neurobiology and neuropsychology of offending behaviour View all articles

Impact of psychosocial stress on facial emotion recognition in schizophrenia and controls: an experimental study in a forensic sample

Provisionally accepted
Henning Hachtel Henning Hachtel 1,2*Gunnar Deuring Gunnar Deuring 2,3Marc Graf Marc Graf 2,3Tobias Vogel Tobias Vogel 2,3
  • 1 Forensic Department, University Psychiatric Clinic Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  • 2 University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  • 3 University Psychiatric Clinic Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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    Given the outstanding contribution of Frontiers in Psychiatry and its Forensic section in the field of diagnostics and evaluation of forensic patients in regard to schizophrenia in the past, the author team wanted to submit our original research in your journal. The manuscript is an experimental study to compare the subjective and neuroendocrine responses due to psychosocial stress of individuals with chronic forms of schizophrenia (PAT) to a healthy control group, its impact on facial emotion recognition(FER) and performance in an arithmetic task. Current literature lacks data on the impact of psychosocial stress on FER in PAT samples and samples in forensic settings. The study focuses also on subjective experienced strain and cortisol levels while controlling for known predictors of cognitive performance like childhood trauma, substance use, parental bonding and intelligence. The results highlight the importance of psychosocial components of therapy interventions to strengthen stress resilience and impart awareness for impaired affect recognition in schizophrenia.

    Keywords: Data curation, Formal analysis, investigation, project administration, resources, Software, Validation, visualization

    Received: 19 Dec 2023; Accepted: 03 Jun 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Hachtel, Deuring, Graf and Vogel. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Henning Hachtel, Forensic Department, University Psychiatric Clinic Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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