RCP: Healthy siblings of people with schizophrenia have problems recognising facial emotion

People with schizophrenia and their healthy siblings have problems recognising facial emotion in others, according to a new study.

Research suggests that schizophrenia has a substantial genetic component. Cognitive and social abilities, as well as the volumes of brain regions involved in emotion processing, such as the amygdala, have been found to vary along a continuum when people with schizophrenia, their siblings and controls are compared.

This study, published in the August 2007 issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry, set out to establish whether facial expression recognition is impaired in healthy siblings of people experiencing their first episode of schizophrenia.

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