Blunted emotion judgments of body movements in Parkinson’s disease

Abstract Some of the behavioral disorders observed in Parkinson’s disease (PD) may be related to an altered processing of social messages, including emotional expressions. Emotions conveyed by whole body movements may be difficult to generate and be detected by PD patients. The aim of the present st...

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Autores principales: Emmanuelle Bellot, Antoine Garnier-Crussard, Elodie Pongan, Floriane Delphin-Combe, Marie-Hélène Coste, Claire Gentil, Isabelle Rouch, Marie-Anne Hénaff, Christina Schmitz, Barbara Tillmann, Pierre Krolak-Salmon
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/e216bb1a0ecb4e82a99bbe64611a3a3e
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Sumario:Abstract Some of the behavioral disorders observed in Parkinson’s disease (PD) may be related to an altered processing of social messages, including emotional expressions. Emotions conveyed by whole body movements may be difficult to generate and be detected by PD patients. The aim of the present study was to compare valence judgments of emotional whole body expressions in individuals with PD and in healthy controls matched for age, gender and education. Twenty-eight participants (13 PD patients and 15 healthy matched control participants) were asked to rate the emotional valence of short movies depicting emotional interactions between two human characters presented with the “Point Light Displays” technique. To ensure understanding of the perceived scene, participants were asked to briefly describe each of the evaluated movies. Patients’ emotional valence evaluations were less intense than those of controls for both positive (p < 0.001) and negative (p < 0.001) emotional expressions, even though patients were able to correctly describe the depicted scene. Our results extend the previously observed impaired processing of emotional facial expressions to impaired processing of emotions expressed by body language. This study may support the hypothesis that PD affects the embodied simulation of emotional expression and the potentially involved mirror neuron system.