“Tell me how do I feel” – Emotion recognition and theory of mind in symptomatic mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

Emotion recognition in temporal lobe epilepsy: A systematic review

“…Four out of eight studies demonstrated that TLE/ATL patients were impaired in both visual and auditory ER tasks. A widespread emotion recognition deficit, involving all negative emotions independently on the sensory channel, was observed by Bonora et al (2011). Broicher et al (2012 reported fear and disgust recognition impairments both for facial and prosodic stimuli.…”

“…such as Mann-Whitney tests, Kruskal Wallis test; Meletti et al, 2003a,b;Benuzzi et al, 2004;Bonora et al, 2011). Some authors used Z-score transformation to normalize data distributions (Adolphs et al, 2001;Fowler et al, 2006;Golouboff et al, 2008;Broicher et al, 2012;Gosselin et al, 2011b;Sedda et al, 2013).…”

“…To check the correlations between variables, Pearson's and Spearman's rank-order correlation coefficients were often calculated (17/43). Other studies used MANOVA for multivariate comparisons (Golouboff et al, 2008;Broicher et al, 2012).…”

“…Moreover, antero-medial temporal lobectomy (ATL) is the "standard" treatment for drug-resistant medial TLE (Wiebe et al, 2001). Consequently, the investigation of emotional and social competence in TLE patients has been the focus of different studies (Meletti et al, 2003a(Meletti et al, ,b, 2009Broicher et al, 2012;Giovagnoli et al, 2011). After more than a decade of research in this field it has been reported that TLE patients show deficits in emotion recognition (ER) (either before and after ATL), especially for facial expressions, but also for different emotional stimuli such has prosody and music (Gosselin et al, 2005(Gosselin et al, , 2011bBonora et al, 2011;Dellacherie et al, 2011).…”

Social cognition and prefrontal cognitive function in patients with epilepsy treated with eslicarbazepine acetate

“…ToM has been found to be impaired in epilepsy patients [6,7], possibly due to disruption of a widely distributed neural network that supports this complex function [5]. In patients with focal epilepsy, earlier onset of the condition may be related to greater ToM impairment, and the location of the epileptic source may have an impact on the severity of ToM dysfunction.…”