Emotion evaluation in Parkinson disease
Abstract
Parkinson disease (PD) has been described for many years mainly with regard to motor symptoms. However, later studies have revealed the experience of cognitive and psychiatric symptoms reported by PD patients. Such symptoms include emotional impairment (hypomimia). The disruption of Facial Emotion Recognition (FER) has been one of the most basic aspects of emotional functioning underlying Parkinson disease. Studies assessing FER in PD report contradictory results although most of them have identified such a difference between PD patients and healthy controls (HCs). The present study explores the difference in FER between PD patients and healthy controls. The sample consists of 16 HCs (11 females and 5 males) and 16 PD patients (10 females and 6 males). The results indicated differences in FER concerning: surprise, disgust, anxiety, and neutral emotional state. The exploration of differences in the severity of disease (disease rating scale) indicated that patients at the 3rd stage scored lower on FER concerning anger, disgust, anxiety, and neutral emotional stage. The findings are discussed in the context of the recent literature.
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Μακοπούλου Ά.-Μ., Μωραΐτου Δ., Καραγιαννοπούλου Ε., & Παπαντωνίου Γ. (2020). Emotion evaluation in Parkinson disease. Journal of Research in Education and Training, 13(1), 36–60. https://doi.org/10.12681/jret.19879
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