ArticleJournal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD2016
Altered sense of humor in dementia.
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- How people come to recognise a problem and seek medical help for a person showing early signs of dementia: A systematic review and meta-ethnography.Dementia (London, England) · 2018Pooled it
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- The architecture of abnormal reward behaviour in dementia: multimodal hedonic phenotypes and brain substrate.Brain communications · 2023Article
- Enhanced positive emotional reactivity in frontotemporal dementia reflects left-lateralized atrophy in the temporal and frontal lobes.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2022Article
- The problematic syndrome of right temporal lobe atrophy: Unweaving the phenotypic rainbow.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- Laughter as a paradigm of socio-emotional signal processing in dementia.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2021Article
- Psychological and Cognitive Markers of Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia-A Clinical Neuropsychologist's View on Diagnostic Criteria and Beyond.Frontiers in neurology · 2019Review
- Are Humor Styles of People With Dementia Linked to Greater Purpose in Life?The Gerontologist · 2018Article
- Primary progressive aphasia: a clinical approach.Journal of neurology · 2018Review
- Music models aberrant rule decoding and reward valuation in dementia.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2018Article
- Enhanced Positive Emotional Reactivity Undermines Empathy in Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia.Frontiers in neurology · 2018Article
- Auditory conflict and congruence in frontotemporal dementia.Neuropsychologia · 2017Article
- Observing conversational laughter in frontotemporal dementia.Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry · 2017Observational
- Psychometric evaluation of the Holden Communication Scale (HCS) for persons with dementia.BMJ open · 2016Article
- Effect of the Sonas Programme on Communication in People with Dementia: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders extraArticle
- AI-powered analysis of affective dimensions in speech and its relevance for FTD diagnosis.Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands)Article
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Abstract
Sense of humor is potentially relevant to social functioning in dementias, but has been little studied in these diseases. We designed a semi-structured informant questionnaire to assess humor behavior and preferences in patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD; n = 15), semantic dementia (SD; n = 7), progressive nonfluent aphasia (PNFA; n = 10), and Alzheimer's disease (AD; n = 16) versus healthy age-matched individuals (n = 21). Altered (including frankly inappropriate) humor responses were significantly more frequent in bvFTD and SD (all patients) than PNFA or AD (around 40% of patients). All patient groups liked satirical and absurdist comedy significantly less than did healthy controls. This pattern was reported premorbidly for satirical comedy in bvFTD, PNFA, and AD. Liking for slapstick comedy did not differ between groups. Altered sense of humor is particularly salient in bvFTD and SD, but also frequent in AD and PNFA. Humor may be a sensitive probe of social cognitive impairment in dementia, with diagnostic, biomarker and social implications.
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