| Facial emotion recognition impairment in chronic temporal lobe epilepsy. | |
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PMID: 19175397 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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PURPOSE: To evaluate facial emotion recognition (FER) in a cohort of 176 patients with chronic temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). METHODS: FER was tested by matching facial expressions with the verbal labels for the following basic emotions: happiness, sadness, fear, disgust, and anger. Emotion recognition performances were analyzed in medial (n = 140) and lateral (n = 36) TLE groups. Fifty healthy subjects served as controls. The clinical and neuroradiologic variables potentially affecting the ability to recognize facial expressions were taken into account. RESULTS: The medial TLE (MTLE) group showed impaired FER (86% correct recognition) compared to both the lateral TLE patients (FER = 93.5%) and the controls (FER = 96.4%), with 42% of MTLE patients recording rates of FER that were lower [by at least 2 standard deviations (SDs)] than the control mean. The MTLE group was impaired compared to the healthy controls in the recognition of all basic facial expressions except happiness. The patients with bilateral MTLE were the most severely impaired, followed by the right and then the left MTLE patients. FER was not affected by type of lesion, number of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), aura semiology, or gender. Conversely, the early onset of seizures/epilepsy was related to FER deficits. These deficits were already established in young adulthood, with no evidence of progression in older MTLE patients. CONCLUSION: These results on a large cohort of TLE patients demonstrate that emotion recognition deficits are common in MTLE patients and widespread across negative emotions. We confirm that early onset seizures with right or bilateral medial temporal dysfunction lead to severe deficits in recognizing facial expressions of emotions. |
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Authors:
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Stefano Meletti; Francesca Benuzzi; Gaetano Cantalupo; Guido Rubboli; Carlo Alberto Tassinari; Paolo Nichelli |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2009-01-21 |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Epilepsia Volume: 50 ISSN: 1528-1167 ISO Abbreviation: Epilepsia Publication Date: 2009 Jun |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2009-08-03 Completed Date: 2009-08-14 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 2983306R Medline TA: Epilepsia Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 1547-59 Citation Subset: IM |
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Department of Neurosciences, Nuovo Ospedale Civile S Agostino-Estense, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy. giuseppe.capovilla@ospedalimantova.it |
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Adult Analysis of Variance Anticonvulsants / pharmacology, therapeutic use Chronic Disease Discrimination (Psychology) Emotions / drug effects, physiology* Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / classification, complications*, drug therapy, psychology* Facial Expression* Female Functional Laterality Humans Male Memory Disorders / etiology* Middle Aged Neuropsychological Tests Pattern Recognition, Visual / drug effects, physiology Retrospective Studies Statistics as Topic Young Adult |
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0/Anticonvulsants |
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