Hypomimia May Influence the Facial Emotion Recognition Ability in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Yu-Han Chuang ◽  
Chun-Hsiang Tan ◽  
Hui-Chen Su ◽  
Chung-Yao Chien ◽  
Pi-Shan Sung ◽  
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Background: Hypomimia is a clinical feature of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Based on the embodied simulation theory, the impairment of facial mimicry may worsen facial emotion recognition; however, the empirical results are inconclusive. Objective: We aimed to explore the worsening of emotion recognition by hypomimia. We further explored the relationship between the hypomimia, emotion recognition, and social functioning. Methods: A total of 114 participants were recruited. The patients with PD and normal controls (NCs) were matched for demographic characteristics. All the participants completed the Mini-Mental State Examination and the Chinese Multi-modalities Emotion Recognition Test. In addition to the above tests, the patients were assessed with the Movement Disorder Society-Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale and Parkinson’s Disease Social Functioning Scale (PDSFS). Results: Patients with PD with hypomimia had worse recognition of disgust than NCs (p = 0.018). The severity of hypomimia was predictive of the recognition of disgust (β= –0.275, p = 0.028). Facial emotion recognition was predictive of the PDSFS score of PD patients (β= 0.433, p = 0.001). We also found that recognizing disgust could mediate the relationship between hypomimia and the PDSFS score (β= 0.264, p = 0.045). Conclusion: Patients with hypomimia had the worst disgust facial recognition. Hypomimia may affect the social function of PD patients, which is related to recognizing the expression of disgust. Emotion recognition training may improve the social function of patients with PD.

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2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. e0169110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Ricciardi ◽  
Federica Visco-Comandini ◽  
Roberto Erro ◽  
Francesca Morgante ◽  
Matteo Bologna ◽  
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2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 871-875 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco E. Pontieri ◽  
Francesca Assogna ◽  
Alessandro Stefani ◽  
Mariangela Pierantozzi ◽  
Giuseppe Meco ◽  
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2010 ◽  
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Author(s):  
Mercè Martínez-Corral ◽  
Javier Pagonabarraga ◽  
Gisela Llebaria ◽  
Berta Pascual-Sedano ◽  
Carmen García-Sánchez ◽  
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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.


2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (8) ◽  
pp. 2121-2128 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.C. Baggio ◽  
B. Segura ◽  
N. Ibarretxe-Bilbao ◽  
F. Valldeoriola ◽  
M.J. Marti ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
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Soizic Argaud ◽  
Marc Vérin ◽  
Paul Sauleau ◽  
Didier Grandjean

2014 ◽  
Vol 338 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 178-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Géraldine Hipp ◽  
Nico J. Diederich ◽  
Vannina Pieria ◽  
Michel Vaillant

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