Social cognition in cervical dystonia: phenotype and relationship to anxiety and depression

Autor: Davide Martino, Justyna R. Sarna, Brandy L. Callahan, Elaheh Nosratmirshekarlou, Tamara Pringsheim, Yamile Jasaui, Katja Kathol, Baeleigh Ellement
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: European Journal of Neurology. 28:98-107
ISSN: 1468-1331
1351-5101
DOI: 10.1111/ene.14508
Popis: BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Anxiety and depression are common disabling comorbidities in cervical dystonia (CD) and may predispose to social withdrawal and social cognitive impairments. The relationship between social cognition and depressive/anxiety symptoms in CD is under-investigated. METHODS Forty-six CD patients (40 women; mean age ± SD, 55.57 ± 10.84 years) were administered the following social cognition battery: Affect Naming, Prosody Face and Pair Matching subtests from the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale IV and Wechsler Memory Scale IV (social perception), reality-known and reality-unknown false belief reasoning tasks (theory of mind), Empathy Quotient and Social Norms Questionnaire 22 (social behaviour), alongside the Benton Facial Recognition Task (non-emotional facial discrimination). Alongside CD severity, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale measured depressive/anxiety comorbid diagnostic status and severity, and the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale assessed social phobia. Social cognition tasks were standardized using published normative data and a cut-off of z
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