RESUMO -Entre os sintomas não motores da doença de Parkinson, dificuldades no reconhecimento de expressões faciais emocionais vêm sendo amplamente discutidas, pois as áreas cerebrais relacionadas a tal habilidade podem estar afetadas na doença. Este estudo investigou, em idosos, o reconhecimento das seis expressões emocionais faciais consideradas universais por meio do instrumento Teste de Percepção Emocional de Faces, em que participantes executam uma tarefa de reconhecimento de expressões emocionais faciais. Participaram 41 indivíduos com idade média de 64,9 anos, 27 homens e 14 mulheres. Não foi observada significativa dificuldade no reconhecimento de nenhuma das expressões emocionais por parte dos parkinsonianos. Tal resultado pode indicar a necessidade do desenvolvimento de instrumentos e técnicas mais adequadas para esse tipo de investigação na população brasileira.Palavras-chave: doença de Parkinson, expressões faciais, emoção, reconhecimento.ABSTRACT -Among the non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease, impairment in the recognition of emotional facial expressions has been widely discussed, as the disease may affect brain areas related to this skill. The current study has investigated, among elderly people, the recognition of the six emotional face expressions considered universal using the instrument Test of Emotional Perception of Faces, where participants performed an emotional facial recognition task. Forty-one participants with an average age of 64.9 years were enrolled to this study, 27 men and 14 women. No significant impairment in the recognition of emotional face expression was observed among the parkinsonians. This result may indicate the need to develop more adequate tools and techniques able to investigate this issue in the Brazilian population.
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