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Error profiles of facial emotion recognition in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

Overview of attention for article published in International Psychogeriatrics, April 2023
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Title
Error profiles of facial emotion recognition in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
Published in
International Psychogeriatrics, April 2023
DOI 10.1017/s1041610223000297
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Authors

Kimberly Gressie, Fiona Kumfor, Her Teng, David Foxe, Emma Devenney, Rebekah M Ahmed, Olivier Piguet

Abstract

To identify the patterns of errors in facial emotion recognition in frontotemporal dementia (FTD) subtypes compared with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and healthy controls. Retrospective analysis. Participants were recruited from FRONTIER, the frontotemporal dementia research group at the University of Sydney, Australia. A total of 356 participants (behavioral-variant FTD (bvFTD): 62, semantic dementia (SD)-left: 29, SD-right: 14, progressive non-fluent aphasia (PNFA): 21, AD: 76, controls: 90) were included. Facial emotion recognition was assessed using the Facial Affect Selection Task, a word-face matching task measuring recognition of the six basic emotions (anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise), as well as neutral emotion, portrayed by black and white faces. Overall, all clinical groups performed significantly worse than controls with the exception of the PNFA subgroup (p = .051). The SD-right group scored worse than all other clinical groups (all p values < .027) and the bvFTD subgroup performed worse than the PNFA group (p < .001). The most frequent errors were in response to the facial emotions disgust (26.1%) and fear (22.9%). The primary error response to each target emotion was identified; patterns of errors were similar across all clinical groups. Facial emotion recognition is impaired in FTD and AD compared to healthy controls. Within FTD, bvFTD and SD-right are particularly impaired. Dementia groups cannot be distinguished based on error responses alone. Implications for future clinical diagnosis and research are discussed.

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Unknown 17 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 3 18%
Other 2 12%
Lecturer 1 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 6%
Professor > Associate Professor 1 6%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 9 53%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 3 18%
Neuroscience 2 12%
Arts and Humanities 1 6%
Chemistry 1 6%
Unknown 10 59%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 September 2023.
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#2,169,236
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#2
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