Affect recognition and functioning in putatively prodromal subjects

Only a few studies have examined affect recognition in clinical high-risk populations (Pinkham et al., 2007; Addington et al., 2008; van Rijn et al., 2011). We have recently shown that impairment in emotion recognition in both modalities (facial and prosody) may be apparent before the full expression of psychotic illness (Amminger et al., 2012). This raises the question: do affect recognition deficits contribute to the functional impairment commonly seen in at-risk participants (Addington et al., 2011; Nelson et al., in press)? Another question that has not been resolved is whether psychopathology is associated with affect recognition deficits in the early stages of psychosis