ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2015
Interaction without intent: the shape of the social world in Huntington's disease.
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- Executive Impairment in Huntington's Disease: Insights From a Systematic Review of the Literature.Brain and behavior · 2026Pooled it
- Automated analysis of clinical interviews indicates altered head movements during social interactions in youth at clinical high-risk for psychosis.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Social cognition in basal ganglia pathologies: Theory of Mind in Huntington's and Parkinson's diseases.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- Measuring cognitive impairment and monitoring cognitive decline in Huntington's disease: a comparison of assessment instruments.Journal of neurology · 2023Article
- Social cognition and quality of life in Huntington's disease.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Kinematics and observer-animator kinematic similarity predict mental state attribution from Heider-Simmel style animations.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Problems with Social Cognition and Decision-Making in Huntington's Disease: Why Is it Important?Brain sciences · 2021Review
- Alexithymia and tic disorders: a study on a sample of children and their mothers.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2019Article
- What Do You Have in Mind? Measures to Assess Mental State Reasoning in Neuropsychiatric Populations.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Review
- Neurocognitive mechanisms of theory of mind impairment in neurodegeneration: a transdiagnostic approach.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2019Review
- Through your eyes or mine? The neural correlates of mental state recognition in Huntington's disease.Human brain mapping · 2018Article
- Abnormal Visual Scanning of Emotionally Evocative Natural Scenes in Huntington's Disease.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- Social Cognition, Executive Functions and Self-Report of Psychological Distress in Huntington's Disease.PLoS currents · 2016Article
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Abstract
Huntington's disease (HD) is an inherited neurodegenerative condition. Patients with this movement disorder can exhibit deficits on tasks involving Theory of Mind (ToM): the ability to understand mental states such as beliefs and emotions. We investigated mental state inference in HD in response to ambiguous animations involving geometric shapes, while exploring the impact of symptoms within cognitive, emotional and motor domains. Forty patients with HD and twenty healthy controls described the events in videos showing random movements of two triangles (i.e. floating), simple interactions (e.g. following) and more complex interactions prompting the inference of mental states (e.g. one triangle encouraging the other). Relationships were explored between animation interpretation and measures of executive functioning, alexithymia and motor symptoms. Individuals with HD exhibited alexithymia and a reduced tendency to spontaneously attribute intentions to interacting triangles on the animations task. Attribution of intentions on the animations task correlated with motor symptoms and burden of pathology. Importantly, patients without motor symptoms showed similar ToM deficits despite intact executive functions. Subtle changes in ToM that are unrelated to executive dysfunction could therefore feature in basal ganglia disorders prior to motor onset.
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