Categorization deficit of facially expressed anger in insomnia (Commentary on Zhang et al. Individuals with insomnia misrecognize angry faces as fearful faces while missing the eyes: an eye-tracking study)

[摘要] Individuals with insomnia often report problems with emotion regulation and impaired social interactions [1, 2], and previous research concurs that insomnia is associated with a blunted response to emotional facial stimuli depicting fear, sadness, and happiness [3, 4] and insomnia salient facial stimuli depicting tiredness [5]. Moreover, both insomnia and sleep apnea patients demonstrate an impaired ability to categorize faces depicting happiness and sadness (but not anger, surprise or disgust) when compared with normal sleepers [3]. Considering an individual’s capacity to correctly gauge facial expressions remains fundamental for effective social interaction, and in influencing...

[学科分类] 生理学