Facial Emotion Recognition Impairment in Patients with Parkinson's Disease and Isolated Apathy
Joint Authors
Martínez-Corral, Mercè
García-Sánchez, Carmen
Pagonabarraga, Javier
Llebaria, Gisela
Kulisevsky, Jaime
Pascual-Sedano, Berta
Gironell, Alexandre
Source
Issue
Vol. 2010, Issue 2010 (31 Dec. 2010), pp.1-5, 5 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2010-07-13
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
5
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Apathy is a frequent feature of Parkinson's disease (PD), usually related with executive dysfunction.
However, in a subgroup of PD patients apathy may represent the only or predominant neuropsychiatric feature.
To understand the mechanisms underlying apathy in PD, we investigated emotional processing in PD patients with and without apathy and in healthy controls (HC), assessed by a facial emotion recognition task (FERT).
We excluded PD patients with cognitive impairment, depression, other affective disturbances and previous surgery for PD.
PD patients with apathy scored significantly worse in the FERT, performing worse in fear, anger, and sadness recognition.
No differences, however, were found between nonapathetic PD patients and HC.
These findings suggest the existence of a disruption of emotional-affective processing in cognitive preserved PD patients with apathy.
To identify specific dysfunction of limbic structures in PD, patients with isolated apathy may have therapeutic and prognostic implications.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Martínez-Corral, Mercè& Pagonabarraga, Javier& Llebaria, Gisela& Pascual-Sedano, Berta& García-Sánchez, Carmen& Gironell, Alexandre…[et al.]. 2010. Facial Emotion Recognition Impairment in Patients with Parkinson's Disease and Isolated Apathy. Parkinson’s Disease،Vol. 2010, no. 2010, pp.1-5.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-989718
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Martínez-Corral, Mercè…[et al.]. Facial Emotion Recognition Impairment in Patients with Parkinson's Disease and Isolated Apathy. Parkinson’s Disease No. 2010 (2010), pp.1-5.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Martínez-Corral, Mercè& Pagonabarraga, Javier& Llebaria, Gisela& Pascual-Sedano, Berta& García-Sánchez, Carmen& Gironell, Alexandre…[et al.]. Facial Emotion Recognition Impairment in Patients with Parkinson's Disease and Isolated Apathy. Parkinson’s Disease. 2010. Vol. 2010, no. 2010, pp.1-5.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-989718
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-989718