Emotional Reactivity to Film Material in Alzheimer’s Disease

Mograbi, Daniel C.; Brown, Richard G.; Morris, Robin G.

doi:10.1159/000343930

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“…When they only received a warning, but no instructions to down-regulate (Condition 2), it appeared that only AD patients and healthy controls were successful in inhibiting their facial responses. This finding of deficient inhibition of facial expressions in dementia is supported by some [55], but not all [56,57], studies.…”

Section: Disinhibitionsupporting

confidence: 60%

The Use of Facial Expressions for Pain Assessment Purposes in Dementia: A Narrative Review

Oosterman

Zwakhalen

Sampson

et al. 2016

Neurodegener. Dis. Manag.

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Facial expressions convey reliable nonverbal signals about pain and thus are very useful for assessing pain in patients with limited communicative ability, such as patients with dementia. In this review, we present an overview of the available pain observation tools and how they make use of facial expressions. Utility and reliability of facial expressions to measure pain in dementia are discussed, together with the effect of dementia severity on these facial expressions. Next, we present how behavioral alterations may overlap with facial expressions of pain, and may even influence the extent to which pain is facially expressed. The main focus is on disinhibition, apathy and emotional changes. Finally, an overview of theoretical considerations and practical implications is presented for assessing pain using facial expressions in clinical settings.

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Section: Disinhibitionsupporting

confidence: 60%

The Use of Facial Expressions for Pain Assessment Purposes in Dementia: A Narrative Review

Oosterman

Zwakhalen

Sampson

et al. 2016

Neurodegener. Dis. Manag.

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“…Third, while watching the films, the patients displayed emotional behaviors, such as crying or laughing, that were consistent with the feelings that they later reported. Previous studies looking at emotional reactivity in patients with AD have also shown preserved facial responses to emotional film clips (Mograbi et al, 2012; Smith, 1995). …”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 91%

Feelings Without Memory in Alzheimer Disease

Guzmán-Vélez

Feinstein

Tranel

2014

Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology

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Objective and Background Patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) typically have impaired declarative memory as a result of hippocampal damage early in the disease. We investigated whether feelings of emotion can persist in patients with AD, even after their declarative memory for what initially caused the feelings has faded. Methods A sample of 17 patients with probable AD and 17 healthy comparison participants (case-matched for age, sex and education) underwent two separate emotion induction procedures that involved watching film clips aimed at inducing states of sadness or happiness. Real-time emotion ratings were collected at baseline and at three post-induction time points, and a test of declarative memory was administered shortly after each induction. Results As expected, declarative memory for both the sad and happy films was impaired in patients with AD. Despite their severe memory impairment, the patients continued to report elevated levels of sadness and happiness that persisted well beyond their memory for the films. This outcome was especially prominent following the sadness induction, with sustained elevations in sadness lasting for over 30 minutes, including in patients with entirely no recollection for the films. Conclusions These findings indicate that patients with AD can experience prolonged states of emotion that persist well beyond their memory for the events that originally caused the emotion. This extends a similar finding previously reported in patients with hippocampal amnesia, and has important implications for the management and care of patients with AD.

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“…Since MCI mainly affects the medial temporal and frontal structures normally involved in encoding emotional stimuli, a reduction in EEF would be expected. Nevertheless, neuroanatomical [25,26] and behavioural findings are still controversial [22,[27][28][29][30], possibly due to the different methodologies employed.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%