Emotion recognition in patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease

Abstract

Emotion recognition (ER) was examined in 64 patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD; 56 bilateral and 8 right-sided) and 64 matched healthy volunteers. Participants were administered an ER battery, consisting of the following subscores: overall ER (OER), overall facial ER, facial emotion identification (FEI) and discrimination, overall prosodic ER, and prosodic emotion identification (PEI) and discrimination. Measures of visuospatial functions, auditory attention, and depression were also administered. After controlling for visuospatial functions, auditory attention and depression, results indicated that patients with bilateral PD had poorer performance on all ER subscores, regardless of the modality and type of experimental task involved, relative to healthy volunteers. However, patients with right-sided PD had difficulty on FEI and PEI only. Whereas none of the clinical variables examined in this study predicted any of the ER subscores, visual organization and auditory attention positively predicted OER in patients with PD. In addition, visual organization also positively predicted FEI in these patients. Implications are discussed in terms of the neural substrates underlying ER.

Facial emotion recognition in Parkinson's disease: A review and new hypotheses

“…They reported a deficit in patients whatever the treatment condition, but found a greater one among unmedicated patients. This is consistent with the positive correlation between patients' performance and daily levodopa‐equivalent dose (LED) found by Assogna et al45 However, no other authors who looked for such correlations found this result 19, 28, 38, 45, 64, 65, 67, 75. Otherwise, several studies have reported a beneficial effect of DRT on FER in PD.…”

“…Indeed, about 30% of the reviewed studies did not examine its effect on the recognition of specific emotions but calculated an overall score encompassing all the displayed emotions 4, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29. Moreover, authors did not manipulate the same set of stimuli, and some only used a small subset 23, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35.…”

Loudness perception and speech intensity control in Parkinson's disease

“…Another important deficit that some individuals with PD frequently demonstrate is the inability to react appropriately to the facial expressions of others or to produce a diversity of facial expressions (Ariatti, Benuzzi, & Nichelli, 2008;Scott, Caird, & Williams, 1984;Yip, Lee, Ho, Tsang, & Li, 2003). Moreover, it is also challenging for some people with PD to accurately produce or perceive the prosodic aspects of speech, specifically angry or questioning statements (Scott et al, 1984).…”

Optimal set of EEG features for emotional state classification and trajectory visualization in Parkinson's disease

“…A commonly drawn inference is that the emotion recognition deficit experienced by individuals with PD is likely to be cross-modal (Peron et al, 2010), yet only a small number of studies have examined emotion recognition performance in both facial and prosodic modalities with same Emotional state classification in PD 4 participants. A number of these report found deficits in both modalities (Ariatti et al, 2008;Yip et al, 2003), whereas others found problems in only one modality (facial, Pell and Leonard, 2003); prosody, Pell and Leonard, 2005), and at least one failed to find deficits in recognition in either modality (Caekebeke et al, 1991).…”

“…Evidence indicates the individuals with PD have deficits in recognizing emotions from prosody (Dara et al, 2008;Pell and Leonard, 2003;Yip et al, 2003) and facial expressions (Ariatti et al, 2008;Clark et al, 2008;Dujardin et al, 2004), although not all findings have been consistent. Several studies have failed to find impaired performance in the recognition of facial expressions related to emotion in their PD samples (Adolphs et al, 1998;Pell and Leonard, 2005), whereas others have failed to find deficits in recognition from prosody (Clark et al, 2008;Kan et al, 2002).…”