Lack of Impairment of Facial Expression Recognition among Individuals with Parkinson Disease
Among the non-motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, impairment in the recognition of emotional facialexpressions 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...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade de Brasília (UnB) |
| Repositorio: | Psicologia (Universidade de Brasília. Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/27902 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/27902 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Parkinson’s disease, facial expression, emotion, recognition doença de Parkinson, expressões faciais, emoção, reconhecimento |
| Resumo: | Among the non-motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, impairment in the recognition of emotional facialexpressions 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 ofEmotional Perception of Faces, where participants performed an emotional facial recognition task. Forty-one participants withan average age of 64.9 years were enrolled to this study, 27 men and 14 women. No significant impairment in the recognition ofemotional face expression was observed among the parkinsonians. This result may indicate the need to develop more adequatetools and techniques able to investigate this issue in the Brazilian population. |
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