Impaired recognition of facial emotional expressions in Multiple Sclerosis

Neuropsychological Trends

Rekha Barthelemy¹  Jean-Louis Nandrino²  Henrique Sequeira³  Bruno Lenne³  Antonio Pinti⁴  Patrick Hautecoeur⁴  Halima Mecheri⁵  Arnaud Kwiatkowski⁶ 

[1] UCLille, OCeS Unit, Psychology Department, Lille, France;Université Lille Nord de France, URECA EA 1059, Department of Psychology, Lille, France;Hôpital St Vincent de Paul, Service de Neurologie, Groupement des Hôpitaux de l’Institut Catholique de Lille, Lille, France;UCLille, OCeS Unit, Psychology Department, Lille, France;Université Lille Nord de France, UMR CNRS 8160, Functional and Pathological Neurosciences, Lille, France;Université Lille Nord de France, UVHC, LAMIH-DEMoH, Valenciennes, France;

关键词: Multiple sclerosis;    Emotion facial recognition;    Cognition;    Alexithymia;    Depression;   

DOI  :  10.7358/neur-2014-015-lenn

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This study investigated the ability of patients with Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis (RRMS) to recognize emotional facial expressions. Cognitive deterioration, depression, alexithymia and facial expression recognition ability were assessed in fifty-five patients and twenty-one controls. Facial expression recognition ability was measured by a forced-choice labeling procedure of five emotional facial expressions (anger, fear, sadness, happiness, none). RRMS patients exhibited a global impairment in the recognition of facial emotion (p=.00049), specifically for anger (p=.01), sadness (p=.0001), and fear, (p=.011). Deficit in emotion recognition was independent from disability (assessed by EDSS score). This deficit was correlated with depression and partially with cognitive deterioration. These results should be discussed in term of global cortico-cortical disconnections.

【 授权许可】

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