Impairments in negative emotion recognition and empathy for pain in Huntington's disease families
| Autor: | Eduar Herrera, Oscar S. Gershanik, Yamile Bocanegra, Sandra Baez, Agustín Ibáñez, Facundo Manes, Lucila Kargieman, Adolfo M. García |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Male Cognitive Neuroscience media_common.quotation_subject Emotions Population EMPATHY Pain Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Context (language use) Empathy Nuclear Family Developmental psychology CIENCIAS SOCIALES Behavioral Neuroscience FIRST-DEGREE ASYMPTOMATIC RELATIVES Huntington's disease Perception medicine Humans Emotional expression education HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE media_common education.field_of_study EMOTION RECOGNITION Recognition Psychology Cognition Middle Aged medicine.disease Executive functions Psicología Facial Expression Huntington Disease Female CONTEXTUAL PROCESSING Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Neuropsychologia. 68:158-167 |
| ISSN: | 0028-3932 |
| Popis: | Lack of empathy and emotional disturbances are prominent clinical features of Huntington's disease (HD). While emotion recognition impairments in HD patients are well established, there are no experimental designs assessing empathy in this population. The present study seeks to cover such a gap in the literature. Eighteen manifest HD patients, 19 first-degree asymptomatic relatives, and 36 healthy control participants completed two emotion-recognition tasks with different levels of contextual dependence. They were also evaluated with an empathy-for-pain task tapping the perception of intentional and accidental harm. Moreover, we explored potential associations among empathy, emotion recognition, and other relevant factors - e.g., executive functions (EF). The results showed that both HD patients and asymptomatic relatives are impaired in the recognition of negative emotions from isolated faces. However, their performance in emotion recognition was normal in the presence of contextual cues. HD patients also showed subtle empathy impairments. There were no significant correlations between EF, empathy, and emotion recognition measures in either HD patients or relatives. In controls, EF was positively correlated with emotion recognition. Furthermore, emotion recognition was positively correlated with the performance in the empathy task. Our findings highlight the preserved cognitive abilities in HD families when using more ecological tasks displaying emotional expressions in the context in which they typically appear. Moreover, our results suggest that emotion recognition impairments may constitute a potential biomarker of HD onset and progression. These results contribute to the understanding of emotion recognition and empathy deficits observed in HD and have important theoretical and clinical implications. Fil: Báez Buitrago, Sandra Jimena. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Houssay. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva. Fundación Favaloro. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva; Argentina. Universidad Diego Portales; Chile Fil: Herrera, Eduar. Universidad Autónoma del Caribe; Colombia Fil: Gershanik, Oscar Samuel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Houssay. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva. Fundación Favaloro. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva; Argentina Fil: García, Adolfo Martín. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Lenguas; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina Fil: Bocanegra,Yamile. Universidad de Antioquia; Colombia. Universidad de San Buenaventura; Colombia Fil: Kargieman, Lucila. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Houssay. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva. Fundación Favaloro. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva; Argentina. Universidad Diego Portales; Chile Fil: Manes, Facundo Francisco. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Houssay. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva. Fundación Favaloro. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva; Argentina. Universidad Diego Portales; Chile Fil: Ibáñez, Santiago Agustín. Universidad Autónoma del Caribe; Colombia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Houssay. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva. Fundación Favaloro. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva; Argentina. Universidad Diego Portales; Chile |
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