Degraded Impairment of Emotion Recognition in Parkinson’s Disease Extends from Negative to Positive Emotions
Joint Authors
Lin, Chia-Yao
Tien, Yi-Min
Huang, Jong-Tsun
Tsai, Chon-Haw
Hsu, Li-Chuan
Source
Issue
Vol. 2016, Issue 2016 (31 Dec. 2016), pp.1-8, 8 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2016-07-31
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
8
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Because of dopaminergic neurodegeneration, patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) show impairment in the recognition of negative facial expressions.
In the present study, we aimed to determine whether PD patients with more advanced motor problems would show a much greater deficit in recognition of emotional facial expressions than a control group and whether impairment of emotion recognition would extend to positive emotions.
Twenty-nine PD patients and 29 age-matched healthy controls were recruited.
Participants were asked to discriminate emotions in Experiment 1 and identify gender in Experiment 2.
In Experiment 1, PD patients demonstrated a recognition deficit for negative (sadness and anger) and positive faces.
Further analysis showed that only PD patients with high motor dysfunction performed poorly in recognition of happy faces.
In Experiment 2, PD patients showed an intact ability for gender identification, and the results eliminated possible abilities in the functions measured in Experiment 2 as alternative explanations for the results of Experiment 1.
We concluded that patients’ ability to recognize emotions deteriorated as the disease progressed.
Recognition of negative emotions was impaired first, and then the impairment extended to positive emotions.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Lin, Chia-Yao& Tien, Yi-Min& Huang, Jong-Tsun& Tsai, Chon-Haw& Hsu, Li-Chuan. 2016. Degraded Impairment of Emotion Recognition in Parkinson’s Disease Extends from Negative to Positive Emotions. Behavioural Neurology،Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-8.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Lin, Chia-Yao…[et al.]. Degraded Impairment of Emotion Recognition in Parkinson’s Disease Extends from Negative to Positive Emotions. Behavioural Neurology No. 2016 (2016), pp.1-8.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Lin, Chia-Yao& Tien, Yi-Min& Huang, Jong-Tsun& Tsai, Chon-Haw& Hsu, Li-Chuan. Degraded Impairment of Emotion Recognition in Parkinson’s Disease Extends from Negative to Positive Emotions. Behavioural Neurology. 2016. Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1099461
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1099461