In:
Acta Neuropsychiatrica, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 19, No. 5 ( 2007-10), p. 279-283
Abstract:
Emotion perception may be impaired after stroke. No study on emotion perception after stroke has taken the influence of post-stroke depressive symptoms into account, although depressive symptoms themselves may hamper emotion perception. Objective: To compare the perception of emotional facial expressions in stroke patients with and without depressive symptoms. Methods: Twenty-two stroke patients participated whose depressive symptoms were classified using the Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (cutoff = 10) and who were compared with healthy controls. Emotion recognition was measured using morphed images of facial expressions. Results: Patients with depressive symptoms performed worse than controls on all emotions; patients without depressive symptoms performed at control level. Patients with depressive symptoms were less sensitive to the emotions anger, happiness and sadness compared with patients without depressive symptoms. Conclusions: Post-stroke depressive symptoms impair emotion perception. This extends findings in bipolar disorder indicating that emotion perception deficits are strongly related to the level of depression.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0924-2708
,
1601-5215
DOI:
10.1111/j.1601-5215.2007.00235.x
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date:
2007
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2077830-2