The Ability to Visually Recognize Facial Emotions during the Initial Stages of Alzheimer’s
The Ability to Visually Recognize Facial Emotions during the Initial Stages of Alzheimer’s作者机构：Service de Psychiatrie Centre Hospitalier de Denain Denain France Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences University of Oklahoma College of Medicine Oklahoma City OK USA Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d’Amiens Neurologie Amiens France Data Processing Consultant in Mathematics Brussels Belgium (Died) Unité de Neurosciences Cognitives (NESC) Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium
出 版 物：《Open Journal of Psychiatry》 (精神病学期刊（英文）)
年 卷 期：2020年第10卷第4期
页 面：187-204页
主 题：Recognizing Facial Emotions Alzheimer Disease Early Diagnosis
摘 要： Background: Alzheimer’s sufferers (AS) are unable to visually recognize facial emotions (VRFE). However, we do not know the kind of emotions involved, the timeline for the onset of this loss of ability to recognize facial emotional expressions during the natural course of this disease and the existence of any correlation with other comorbid cognitive disorders. For that reason, the authors aimed to determine whether a deficit in facial emotion recognition is present at the onset of Alzheimer disease, distinctly and concurrently with the onset of cognitive impairment or is it a prodromal syndrome of Alzheimer’s Disease before the onset of cognitive decline and what emotions are involved. A secondary aim was to investigate relationships between facial emotion recognition and cognitive performance on various parameters. Method: Single Blind Case-control study. Setting in Memory clinic. Participants: 12 patients, (AS) and 12 control subjects (CS) were enrolled. Measurements: Quantitative information about the ability for facial emotion recognition was obtained from Method of Analysis and Research on the Integration of Emotions (MARIE). The Mini Mental Status Examination (MMSE), the Picture Naming, the Mattis Dementia Rating Scale (DRS), and the Grober & Buschke Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test (FCSRT) tests were used to measure cognitive impairment. Results: We note that the AS have a problem with the visual recognition of facial emotions with existence of a higher threshold for visual recognition. The AS is less sensitive to the visual recognition cues of facial emotions. AS is unable to distinguish anger from fear. It would be a possible explanation for some acts of aggressiveness seen in the clinical and home setting demonstrated by “AS with behavioral disturbance. The anger-fear series was f
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