All people with frontotemporal dementia experience difficult to recognize emotions.
A new study has shown that people lose to identify with frontotemporal dementia, one of the most common forms of the state, but the ability to negative emotions such as anger, fear and disgust, that the positive emotions such as joy.
With various other symptoms affecting the behavior and language, the experience lasts frontotemporal dementia in the recognition of emotions. So far, but do not know whether the three subtypes of FTD have equal recognition deficits mood, and whether certain techniques can contribute to deficits.
The team of Dr. Piguet `s look at the capacity of 41 persons with FTD to recognize six basic facial emotion (anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness and surprise).
The team also conducted a second test with faces with exaggerated emotions determine whether the expression of emotions, to help the recognition. Of the three subtypes of FTD, the researchers found that people were more with the semantic dementia subtype, if it was to recognize emotions.
Patients with non-progressive aphasia and behavioral sub-variant of FTD also had deficits in emotion recognition, especially for angry faces and sad, but tends to improve when the emotions have been clearer.
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