Facial emotion recognition and sleep in mentally disordered patients: A natural experiment in a high security hospital

Chu, Simon orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-8921-4942, McNeill, Kimberley, Ireland, Jane L. orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-5117-5930 and Qurashi, Inti (2015) Facial emotion recognition and sleep in mentally disordered patients: A natural experiment in a high security hospital. Psychiatry Research, 230 (2). pp. 725-727. ISSN 01651781

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2015.10.005

Abstract

We investigated the relationship between a change in sleep quality and facial emotion recognition accuracy in a group of mentally-disordered inpatients at a secure forensic psychiatric unit. Patients whose sleep improved over time also showed improved facial emotion recognition while patients who showed no sleep improvement showed no change in emotion recognition.


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