The Efficacy of Emotion Recognition Rehabilitation for People with Alzheimer's Disease
| Autor: | J. Antonio Garcia-Casal, Felipe Soto-Pérez, Sara Calvo-Simal, Miguel Goñi-Imizcoz, M. Victoria Perea-Bartolomé, Manuel A. Franco-Martín, Sarah J. Smith |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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media_common.quotation_subject medicine.medical_treatment Population Emotions Neuropsychological Tests Affect (psychology) 050105 experimental psychology Statistics Nonparametric 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Alzheimer Disease Outcome Assessment Health Care medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Emotional expression Single-Blind Method education media_common Aged Aged 80 and over education.field_of_study Rehabilitation Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Depression General Neuroscience 05 social sciences Neuropsychology Cognition Recognition Psychology General Medicine Disgust Sadness Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Female Geriatrics and Gerontology Psychology Mental Status Schedule 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Clinical psychology Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD. 57(3) |
| ISSN: | 1875-8908 |
| Popis: | Background The ability to recognize emotional expression is essential for social interactions, adapting to the environment, and quality of life. Emotion recognition is impaired in people with Alzheimer's disease (AD), thus rehabilitation of these skills has the potential to elicit significant benefits. Objective This study sought to establish whether emotion recognition capacity could be rehabilitated in people with AD. Methods Thirty-six participants with AD were assigned to one of three conditions: an experimental group (EG) that received 20 sessions of rehabilitation of emotion recognition and 20 sessions of cognitive stimulation therapy (CST), a control group (CG) that received 40 sessions of CST, and a treatment as usual group (TAU). Results A positive treatment effect favoring the EG was found; participants were better able to correctly identify emotions (p = 0.021), made fewer errors of commission (p = 0.002), had greater precision of processing (p = 0.021), and faster processing speed (p = 0.001). Specifically, the EG were better able to identify sadness (p = 0.016), disgust (p = 0.005), and the neutral expression (p = 0.014), with quicker processing speed for disgust (p = 0.002). These gains were maintained at one month follow-up with the exception of processing speed for surprise, which improved. Conclusion Capacity to recognize facial expressions of emotions can be improved through specific rehabilitation in people with AD, and gains are still present at a one month follow up. These findings have implications for the design of rehabilitation techniques for people with AD that may lead to improved quality of life and social interactions for this population. |
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