ArticleBehavioural neurology2018
Screening for Emotional Expression in Frontotemporal Dementia: A Pilot Study.
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- Exploring the Relationship Between Deficits in Social Cognition and Neurodegenerative Dementia: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Pooled it
- Disrupted emotion-memory interactions in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026Article
- Facial Expression Metrics as Digital Biomarkers of Neurologic Disease.Neurology open access · 2025Article
- Moral Emotions and Their Brain Structural Correlates Across Neurodegenerative Disorders.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2023Article
- Study on Associating Emotions in Verbal Reactions to Facial Expressions in Dementia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Psychological and Cognitive Markers of Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia-A Clinical Neuropsychologist's View on Diagnostic Criteria and Beyond.Frontiers in neurology · 2019Review
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Abstract
objectiveAlthough emotional blunting is a core feature of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), there are no practical clinical measures of emotional expression for the early diagnosis of bvFTD.
methodThree age-matched groups (bvFTD, Alzheimer's disease (AD), and healthy controls (HC)) of eight participants each were presented with real-life vignettes varying in emotional intensity (high versus low) with either negative or positive outcomes. This study evaluated verbal (self-reports of distress) and visual (presence or absence of facial affect) measures of emotional expression during the vignettes.
resultsThe bvFTD patients did not differ from the AD and HC groups in reported distress or in the amount of facial affect during vignettes with high emotional intensity or type of outcome. However, the bvFTD patients reported significantly less distress and had correspondingly few facial affective expressions when compared on vignettes of low intensity.
conclusionsPatients with bvFTD require a high intensity of emotional stimulus and are significantly hyporesponsive to low-intensity stimuli. Simple screening or observations of verbal and facial responsiveness to mildly arousing stimuli may aid in differentiating bvFTD from normal subjects and patients with other dementias. Future studies can investigate whether delivering information with high emotional intensity can facilitate communication with patients with bvFTD.
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