Greater Deficits In Emotional Facial Expression Can Indicate More Severe Alcoholism

... Recognition of emotional facial expressions (EFEs) is a key form of non-verbal communication that is lacking among alcoholics. New findings show continuing EFE decoding deficits among alcoholics even after three months of abstinence. Alcoholics with the worst EFE decoding performance at initial assessment not only dropped out of treatment, but all of them later relapsed. ...