Impaired Recognition of Facially Expressed Emotions in Different Groups of Patients with Sleep Disorders.
PLoS One
; 11(4): e0152754, 2016.
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| ID: mdl-27073852
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION:
Recently it has been shown that acute sleep loss has a direct impact on emotional processing in healthy individuals. Here we studied the effect of chronically disturbed sleep on emotional processing by investigating two samples of patients with sleep disorders.METHODS:
25 patients with psychophysiologic insomnia (23 women and 2 men, mean age 51.6 SD; 10.9 years), 19 patients with sleep apnea syndrome (4 women and 15 men, mean age 51.9; SD 11.1) and a control sample of 24 subjects with normal sleep (15 women and 9 men, mean age 45.3; SD 8.8) completed a Facial Expressed Emotion Labelling (FEEL) task, requiring participants to categorize and rate the intensity of six emotional expression categories anger, anxiety, fear, happiness, disgust and sadness. Differences in FEEL score and its subscales among the three samples were analysed using ANOVA with gender as a covariate.RESULTS:
Both patients with psychophysiologic insomnia and patients with sleep apnea showed significantly lower performance in the FEEL test as compared to the control group. Differences were seen in the scales happiness and sadness. Patient groups did not differ from each other.CONCLUSION:
By demonstrating that previously known effects of acute sleep deprivation on emotional processing can be extended to persons experiencing chronically disturbed sleep, our data contribute to a deeper understanding of the relationship between sleep loss and emotions.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Trastornos del Sueño-Vigilia
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Reconocimiento en Psicología
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Emociones
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Expresión Facial
Límite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
PLoS One
Asunto de la revista:
CIENCIA
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MEDICINA
Año:
2016
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Alemania