Facial features of chronic alcoholics

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Try out PMC Labs and tell us what you think. Learn More. Alcohol abuse and dependence can cause a wide variety of cognitive, psychomotor, and visual-spatial deficits. Such impairments may promote deficits in social cognition and, consequently, in the adaptation and interaction of alcohol abusers with their social environment. The findings of some studies indicate that alcoholics have greater impairment in facial expression recognition tasks, while others could not differentiate the clinical group from controls. However, there was a trend toward greater deficits in alcoholics. Alcoholics displayed less accuracy in recognition of sadness and disgust and required greater emotional intensity to judge facial expressions corresponding to fear and anger.

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Several studies have demonstrated that chronic and excessive alcohol use causes social cognition deficits. Thus, the aim of the current study is to assess the associations between emotional facial expression recognition and current alcohol dependence. The instrument to assess the recognition of facial expressions of emotion was a dynamic task at computer.