Mechanisms underlying vocal emotion impairments in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (MECH-SB). | C4C

Our study aims to discover more about the reasons for impaired understanding of vocal emotion cues in different populations, and what their impact is. We will examine similarities and differences between impaired perception of emotional intonation in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder by integrating the results from a series of tasks that assess the ability to understand vocal emotion, the perception of more basic auditory understand emotional intonation, the mechanisms that cause impairments in different populations, and what the consequences are for the well-being of people whose emotion recognition skills are impaired. Such work is important, because these impairments can lead to difficulties in interpersonal communication, reducing social participation and increasing loneliness in already vulnerable groups. Our ultimate aim is to build more comprehensive models of impairment that will provide concrete targets for tackling the root causes and reducing their effects