PMID: 9556771Apr 29, 1998Paper

Intact recognition of facial emotion in Parkinson's disease

Neuropsychology
Ralph AdolphsD Tranel

Abstract

Although the basal ganglia have been shown to be critical for the expression of emotion in prosody and facial expressions, it is unclear whether they are also critical for recognition of emotions. Selective pathology of parts of the basal ganglia is a hallmark of individuals with Parkinson's disease, and such patients have been examined in several studies of emotion. We examined 18 patients with Parkinson's disease (11 men, 7 women) and 13 age-, education-, gender ratio-, and IQ-matched normal controls on their ability to recognize emotions signaled by facial expressions. Parkinson's patients performed entirely normally on a quantitative task of recognizing emotional facial expressions. The findings do not support the notion that the sectors of basal ganglia that are dysfunctional in Parkinson's disease are essential for recognizing emotion in facial expressions.

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Dec 6, 2002·Cortex; a Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior·Yayoi KanKatsuki Nakamura
Dec 4, 2003·Neuropsychologia·Kathy DujardinAlain Destée
May 17, 2002·Current Opinion in Neurobiology·Ralph Adolphs
Jul 18, 2008·The Spanish Journal of Psychology·Pilar Martín PlasenciaJuan Manuel Serrano
Dec 5, 2019·Frontiers in Psychology·Dilara DeryaChristian Wallraven

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