ArticleCerebellum (London, England)2018
Emotion Recognition and Psychological Comorbidity in Friedreich's Ataxia.
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- Cognition in cerebellar disorders: What's in the profile? A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of neurology · 2025Pooled it
- The cognitive profile of Friedreich ataxia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC neurology · 2022Pooled it
- Prevalence, Severity, and Progression of Cerebellar Cognitive-Affective Syndrome in Patients With Spinocerebellar Ataxias.Neurology · 2025Article
- Spatial perspective taking is impaired in spinocerebellar ataxias and Friedreich ataxia.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Clinical and cognitive assessment in Friedreich ataxia clinical trials: a review.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Review
- Exploring neuropsychiatric symptoms in Friedreich ataxia.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Longitudinal Changes of Clinical, Imaging, and Fluid Biomarkers in Preataxic and Early Ataxic Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 2 and 7 Carriers.Neurology · 2024Observational
- Friedreich ataxia: clinical features and new developments.Neurodegenerative disease management · 2022Review
- Cognitive Dysfunction in Repeat Expansion Diseases: A Review.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Review
- Friedreich Ataxia: Multidisciplinary Clinical Care.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2021Review
- Social Cognition in Chiari Malformation Type I: a Preliminary Characterization.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2020Article
- Cerebellar cognitive disorder parallels cerebellar motor symptoms in Friedreich ataxia.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2020Article
- Health-related quality of life and depressive symptoms in Friedreich ataxia.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2020Article
- Cognitive and functional connectivity alterations in Friedreich's ataxia.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA) is an autosomal recessive disease presenting with ataxia, corticospinal signs, peripheral neuropathy, and cardiac abnormalities. Little effort has been made to understand the psychological and emotional burden of the disease. The aim of our study was to measure patients' ability to recognize emotions using visual and non-verbal auditory hints, and to correlate this ability with psychological, neuropsychological, and neurological variables. We included 20 patients with FRDA, and 20 age, sex, and education matched healthy controls (HC). We measured emotion recognition using the Geneva Emotion Recognition Test (GERT). Neuropsychological status was assessed measuring memory, executive functions, and prosopagnosia. Psychological tests were Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), State Trait Anxiety Inventory-state/-trait (STAI-S/-T), and Structured Clinical Interview for DSM Disorders II. FRDA patients scored worse at the global assessment and showed impaired immediate visuospatial memory and executive functions. Patients presented lower STAI-S scores, and similar scores at the STAI-T, and PHQ-9 as compared to HC. Three patients were identified with personality disorders. Emotion recognition was impaired in FRDA with 29% reduction at the total GERT score (95% CI - 44.8%, - 12.6%; p < 0.001; Cohen's d = 1.2). Variables associated with poor GERT scores were the 10/36 spatial recall test, the Ray Auditory Verbal Learning Test, the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, and the STAI-T (R
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