Abstract:There is increasing interest in the nature of the emotion recognition deficit in Huntington's disease (HD). Recognition of all negative emotions tends to be impaired in HD, particularly in the facial domain. This study aims to evaluate brain's reactivity to emotional pictures by recording event-related potentials and assessing their relationship to evaluative measures of affect in a cohort of 20 early HD patients, compared to 24 age and sex matched controls. Fourty-two colour slides were chosen from the Intern… Show more
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