Abstract

COSSINI, Florencia; RUBINSTEIN, Wanda  and  POLITIS, Daniel. Study of basic emotions in patients with Alzheimer disease. Anu. investig. [online]. 2013, vol.20, n.2, pp.311-316. ISSN 1851-1686.

Hargrave et al, (2002) and Brueckner & Moritz, (2009) postulate that deficits in recognition of emotional facial expression in Dementia Alzheimer’s Type (DAT) are independent non-emotional deficits. They interpret their results as evidence of a specific impairment in the emotional process.  However Cadieux (1997) and Burnham & Hogervorst (2004) found significant deficits on tests of facial emotion recognition in patients with DAT, suggesting that they were the secondary outcome deficits in visual-perceptual processing of nonemotional facial features. The goal is study the basic emotional face recognition in patients with DAT. We evaluated 16 patients with a diagnosis of DAT and were compared with a control group. Three tests were administered facial recognition of emotion with 60 photographs of POFA (Ekman and Friesen, 1976). There were significant differences in the three tests between the control group and DAT patients. Our results are consistent with the evidence of the authors suggest that the DAT specific impairment in emotional processing.

Keywords : Facial Emotion; Recognition; Dementia Alzheimer’s Type.

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