Relative preservation of facial expression recognition in posterior cortical atrophy.
Neurology
; 92(10): e1064-e1071, 2019 03 05.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To compare recognition of facial expression (FE) vs recognition of facial identity (FI) in posterior cortical atrophy (PCA), with the hypothesis that FE recognition would be relatively preserved in PCA.METHODS:
In this observational study, FI and expression recognition tasks were performed by 194 participants in 4 groups, including 39 with Alzheimer disease (AD) (non-PCA), 49 with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), 15 with PCA, and 91 healthy controls. Between-group differences in test scores were compared.RESULTS:
Patients with PCA performed worse than healthy controls in FI and emotion recognition tasks (p < 0.001 for all). Patients with PCA also performed worse than AD and bvFTD groups in FI recognition, with no difference in FE recognition.CONCLUSIONS:
Patients with PCA have relatively preserved FE recognition compared to FI recognition, as seen in affective blindsight.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Expresión Facial
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Demencia Frontotemporal
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Reconocimiento Facial
Tipo de estudio:
Observational_studies
Límite:
Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Neurology
Año:
2019
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Article