This abstract is taken from my PhD thesis, submitted in 2008.

Functional Brain Electrical Activity Imaging during Affective Facial Processing in People with Schizophrenia

Empirical evidence suggests impaired affective facial processing in schizophrenia. However, the nature of this deficit is the subject of ongoing study. The current study used the Steady-State Probe Topography (SSPT) technique to examine early and late stages of identity- and emotion-matching in people previously diagnosed with schizophrenia. This was done in order to examine whether these deficits were generalised