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Association Between Facial Emotion Recognition and Odor Identification in Schizophrenia

Received May 25, 2005; revised February 27, 2006; accepted April 4, 2006. Drs. Kohler, Barrett, Gur, Turetsky, and Moberg are affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry, Schizophrenia Research Center, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Drs. Turetsky and Moberg are also affiliated with the Smell and Taste Center, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Address correspondence to Dr. Kohler, Schizophrenia Research Center, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychiatry, 10th Floor, Gates Building, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104; kohler{at}bbl.med.upenn.edu (e-mail).

The authors examine facial emotion recognition and unirhinal olfactory performance in 19 schizophrenia patients and 14 comparison subjects. In patients, right nostril odor identification performance was positively related to overall emotion recognition accuracy, specifically, sad facial expressions. Olfactory and emotion recognition abilities appear significantly linked in schizophrenia.

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