Impairment in the specificity of emotion processing in XXXX .

@entity1 @entity73 @entity161
OBJECTIVE: Deficits in emotion processing are a hallmark of @entity161 , with consequences for social functioning and subjective well-being. However, their specificity and characteristics have not been ascertained psychometrically. The authors' purpose was to examine a differential deficit for processing emotional facets of the face compared to judgment of nonemotional features (age) and facial memory. The authors also sought to establish whether the deficit affects sensitivity or specificity of performance. METHOD: @entity1 were 20 @entity1 with @entity161 and 20 healthy subjects matched for age, gender, and parental education. The authors examined emotional discrimination abilities compared to age discrimination and recognition memory for faces with standardized faces displaying the universal emotions of happiness, sadness, anger, and fear. Percent correct in each condition and for each emotion were assessed as well as sensitivity (correct identification of a target emotion) and specificity (correct rejection of a nontarget emotion) for emotion recognition. RESULTS: @entity1 with @entity161 were @entity73 in the discrimination of emotional aspects of facial expressions compared to nonemotional aspects and memory. Within the emotional task, @entity1 showed @entity73 in specificity and insensitivity to the emotion displayed. CONCLUSIONS: When identical stimuli were used across tasks, @entity73 was seen in @entity1 with @entity161 for processing emotional faces, although the nonemotional task proved harder for both groups. Impairment in the specificity of emotion identification may lead to misunderstanding of social communication and may underlie difficulties in social adjustment experienced by @entity1 with @entity161 . Emotion discrimination tests could augment the neurobehavioral evaluation of @entity1 .
