Visual perception during mirror gazing at one's own face in schizophrenia

• Published in: Schizophrenia research Vol. 140; no. 1-3; pp. 46 - 50
• Main Authors: Caputo, Giovanni B., Ferrucci, Roberta, Bortolomasi, Marco, Giacopuzzi, Mario, Priori, Alberto, Zago, Stefano
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.09.2012; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adult; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Aged; Analysis of Variance; Attention - physiology; Biological and medical sciences; Body dysmorphic disorder; Body Dysmorphic Disorders - etiology; Dopamine Antagonists - pharmacology; Electroencephalography; Evoked Potentials - physiology; Face; Female; Fixation, Ocular - drug effects; Fixation, Ocular - physiology; Haloperidol - pharmacology; Humans; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Misattribution of self-agency; Photic Stimulation; Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Psychoses; Schizophrenia; Schizophrenia - complications; Schizophrenic Psychology; Self; Self Concept; Somatoform disorders. Psychosomatics; Strange-face-in-the mirror illusion; Surveys and Questionnaires; Visual Perception - drug effects; Visual Perception - physiology; Schizophrenia; Strange-face-in-the mirror illusion; Self; Misattribution of self-agency; Body dysmorphic disorder; Human; Agency; Gaze; Illusion; Dysmorphophobia; Attribution; Social cognition; Psychosis; Vision; Somatoform disorder; Perception; Face

In normal observers gazing at one's own face in the mirror for some minutes, at a low illumination level, triggers the perception of strange faces, a new perceptual illusion that has been named ‘strange-face in the mirror’. Subjects see distortions of their own faces, but often they see monster...