Processing of Emotional Cues in Patients with Dementia of the Alzheimer's Type

Allender, James; Kaszniak, Alfred W.

doi:10.3109/00207458908986252

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“…Interestingly, fear and disgust may be seen as avoidance-related emotions [42] with their central neural substrates being the amygdala for fear [43] and the insula and the basal ganglia for disgust [4,44]. This interpretation is supported by the finding of a selective FER impairment for fear and contempt [11,24,45]. …”

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“…The decrease in FER capacity with increasing cognitive impairment is in part reminiscent of findings of other studies suggesting differences between the normal elderly and those suffering from AD [2,3,10,11,13,15,18], with age being a minor determinant of FER capacity. However, as in our study, decreased FER has not always been observed across all emotions analyzed.…”

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confidence: 58%

“…Decreased FER capacity was reported in AD patients when compared to normal controls [10,11,12,13,14,15,16], although others observed no differences [17,18,19]. Some minor degree of altered FER capacity may even appear in the healthy elderly [13].…”

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An Exploratory Study on Facial Emotion Recognition Capacity in Beginning Alzheimer’s Disease

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Objective: It was the aim of this study to investigate facial emotion recognition (FER) in the elderly with cognitive impairment. Method: Twelve patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and 12 healthy control subjects were asked to name dynamic or static pictures of basic facial emotions using the Multimodal Emotion Recognition Test and to assess the degree of their difficulty in the recognition task, while their electrodermal conductance was registered as an unconscious processing measure. Results: AD patients had lower objective recognition performances for disgust and fear, but only disgust was accompanied by decreased subjective FER in AD patients. The electrodermal response was similar in all groups. No significant effect of dynamic versus static emotion presentation on FER was found. Conclusion: Selective impairment in recognizing facial expressions of disgust and fear may indicate a nonlinear decline in FER capacity with increasing cognitive impairment and result from progressive though specific damage to neural structures engaged in emotional processing and facial emotion identification. Although our results suggest unchanged unconscious FER processing with increasing cognitive impairment, further investigations on unconscious FER and self-awareness of FER capacity in neurodegenerative disorders are required.

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“…In this study, demented patients' ability of emotion coprehension was defined as their ability of recognizing other people's affects from their facial expressions or from the situations that the others are in. Allender and Kaszniak [2] showed that in patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT), the ability of emotion comprehension generally deteriorates. DAT and vascular dementia (VD) are the two most common dementias.…”

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Comprehension of Emotions: Comparison between Alzheimer Type and Vascular Type Dementias

Shimokawa¹,

Yatomi²,

Anamizu³

et al. 2000

Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord

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This study investigated the ability of recognizing emotion in dementia. Twenty-five patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT), 25 patients with vascular dementia (VD), and 12 normal control subjects were evaluated as to general cognition, visuoperception and emotion recognition. The score on the emotion recognition task significantly correlated with that of the Mini-Mental State Examination for VD patients while this was not the case for DAT patients. Moreover, VD patients performed significantly worse than DAT patients on the emotion recognition task in spite of the fact that there was no difference in the general cognitive and visuoperceptual abilities between them. The result of this study coupled with the past studies led to the hypothesis that the relationship between intellectual deficits and the deterioration in recognizing emotions differs according to type of dementia. Caregivers in nursing homes and hospitals need to take into account their patients’ intellectual deficits but also their deteriorating ability of identifying emotions.

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“…Other studies [12][13][14] indicate that patients with AD have an impaired capacity to process the facial expressions of emotion, probably due to the characteristic cognitive deterioration associated with the disease, especially in the attention and memory processes of the amygdala [11] and other brain structures that modulate emotional processing [15].…”

Section: Emotions Aging and Dementiamentioning

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Behavior and Emotion in Dementia

Rodríguez¹,

Sales²,

RedondoFlores³

et al. 2016

Update on Dementia

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During the course of disease, the patient and caregiver face emotional and behavioral problems that may occur. Therefore, it is important to knowing how emotions and the perception of them are modified and thus to know the impact they have on mood and behavior of the patient and caregiver. Publicizing the type of pathology, both emotional and behavioral levels, in a patient with dementia can help in the development of nonpharmacological interventions that could slow the symptoms and improve the quality of life of patients.

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Processing of Emotional Cues in Patients with Dementia of the Alzheimer's Type

Cited by 66 publications

References 17 publications

An Exploratory Study on Facial Emotion Recognition Capacity in Beginning Alzheimer’s Disease

An Exploratory Study on Facial Emotion Recognition Capacity in Beginning Alzheimer’s Disease

Comprehension of Emotions: Comparison between Alzheimer Type and Vascular Type Dementias

Behavior and Emotion in Dementia

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