Journal article
Intact Recognition of Facial Emotion in Parkinson's Disease
Neuropsychology, Vol.12(2), pp.253-258
04/1998
DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.12.2.253
PMID: 9556771
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.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Intact Recognition of Facial Emotion in Parkinson's Disease
- Creators
- Ralph Adolphs - Department of Neurology, Division of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Iowa College of MedicineRina Schul - Department of Neurology, Division of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Iowa College of MedicineDaniel Tranel - Department of Neurology, Division of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Iowa College of Medicine
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Neuropsychology, Vol.12(2), pp.253-258
- DOI
- 10.1037/0894-4105.12.2.253
- PMID
- 9556771
- NLM abbreviation
- Neuropsychology
- ISSN
- 0894-4105
- eISSN
- 1931-1559
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/1998
- Academic Unit
- Neurology; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984002409802771
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