NDLI: The Recognition of Facial Emotions in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Patients

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Author	D’Agata, Federico Caroppo, Paola Baudino, Bruno Caglio, Marcella Croce, Michela Bergui, Mauro Tamietto, Marco Mortara, Paolo Orsi, Laura
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	Patients with cerebellar lesions present some affective and cognitive disorders, defining a peculiar pattern of cognitive impairment, so-called cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome. This pattern has been confirmed in many genotypes of spinocerebellar ataxias (SCA), a group of genetically defined pathologies characterized by the degeneration of the cerebellum and its connections. Recently, in SCA patients, some authors focused the interest on social cognition evidencing an impairment of theory of mind and basic emotion recognition by verbal material. The recognition of emotions in faces is an essential component of social cognition; therefore, we assessed this ability in SCA patients, expanding the study from the basic verbal emotions to the basic and social visual emotion recognition. We assessed facial emotion recognition using two basic and social emotion tasks in a group of SCA patients together with a complete clinical and neuropsychological evaluation. We compared results with the performance of a control group. We demonstrated a significant difference between patients and controls both in basic and social emotion recognition, although we found a specific impairment only for social emotions. The deficit was not correlated to clinical and demographic features. The cognitive and psychological profile did not explain the impairment in emotion recognition. This result supports the hypothesis that the impairment in social emotion recognition could be specifically related to a defect in the corticocerebellar network.
Starting Page	600
Ending Page	610
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISSN	14734222
Journal	The Cerebellum
Volume Number	10
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	14734230
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2011-04-19
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Spinocerebellar ataxia SCA Facial emotion recognition Cerebellum Neuropsychology Neurosciences Neurobiology Neurology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Neurology Neurology (clinical)

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