Involvement of the insular cortex is a common finding in neuroanatomical studies of
schizophrenia, yet its contribution to disease pathology remains unknown. This review …

Integration of information from face and voice plays a central role in our social interactions. It
has been mostly studied in the context of audiovisual speech perception: integration of …

This review highlights the importance of right hemisphere language functions for successful
social communication and advances the hypothesis that the core deficit in psychosis is a …

Schizophrenia is widely regarded to be a neurocognitive disorder, ie a dysfunction of the
neural and cognitive systems subserving thinking and reasoning, memory, language …

Voice atypicalities have been a characteristic feature of schizophrenia since its first
definitions. They are often associated with core negative symptoms such as flat affect and …

Unlike the aphasic syndromes, the organization of affective prosody in brain has remained
controversial because affective-prosodic deficits may occur after left or right brain damage …

Emotion deficits in schizophrenia have been described since the time of Kraepelin.
However, no comprehensive review of clinical emotion studies has ever been conducted, in …

BACKGROUND: Deficits in emotion processing may be one of the most pervasive
disturbances in schizophrenia that may contribute to social isolation. In this report we focus …

Using positron emission tomography we explored brain regions activated during the
perception of face expressions, emotional voices and combined audio-visual pairs. A …

BACKGROUND: Deficits in affect recognition are prominent features of schizophrenia.
Within the auditory domain, patients show difficulty in interpreting vocal emotional cues …