Kan Yayoi, Kawamura Mitsuru, Hasegawa Yukihiro, Mochizuki Satoshi, Nakamura Katsuki
Department of Cognitive and Behavioral Science, University of Tokyo, Japan.
Cortex. 2002 Sep;38(4):623-30. doi: 10.1016/s0010-9452(08)70026-1.
Although the basal ganglia are thought to be important in recognizing emotion, there is contradictory evidence as to whether patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) have deficits in recognizing facial expressions. In addition, few studies have examined their ability to recognize emotion from non-visual stimuli, such as voices. We examined the ability of PD patients and age-matched controls to recognize emotion in three different modalities: facial, prosodic, and written verbal stimuli. Compared to controls, PD patients showed deficits in recognizing fear and disgust in facial expressions. These impairments were not seen in their recognition of prosodic or written verbal stimuli. This modality-specific deficit suggests that the neural substrates for recognizing emotion from different modalities are not fully identical.
尽管基底神经节被认为在识别情绪方面很重要，但关于帕金森病（PD）患者在识别面部表情方面是否存在缺陷存在相互矛盾的证据。此外，很少有研究考察他们从非视觉刺激（如声音）中识别情绪的能力。我们研究了PD患者和年龄匹配的对照组在三种不同模态下识别情绪的能力：面部、韵律和书面语言刺激。与对照组相比，PD患者在识别面部表情中的恐惧和厌恶方面表现出缺陷。这些损伤在他们对韵律或书面语言刺激的识别中并未出现。这种特定模态的缺陷表明，从不同模态中识别情绪的神经基质并不完全相同。
