Study of perception of emotion from face in patients with stroke in basal ganglia
- VernacularTitle:基底节卒中患者面孔情绪认知障碍的研究
- Author:
Zhaohai FENG
;
Kai WANG
;
Chunyan ZHU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
basal ganglia;
emotion;
affective dysfunction;
disgust
- From:
Journal of Clinical Neurology
1995;0(04):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To investigate whether the patients of stroke in basal ganglia have the selective deficit of recognition of disgust expression and to test the hypothesis that basal ganglia is involved in emotion processing, especially in disgust processing. Methods We developed six typical facial emotions (happiness, surprise, fear, sadness, disgust and anger) and a neutral facial emotion. A labeling task with these emotional faces measured the ability to recognize emotional faces in 32 stroke patients in basal ganglia and in 30 normal controls.Results Compared with normal controls, patients of stroke in basal ganglia impaired in perception of facial emotion (correct identification scores, 106.73?7.62, P
