ReviewParkinson's disease2018
Problems with Facial Mimicry Might Contribute to Emotion Recognition Impairment in Parkinson's Disease.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.
- Deliberate Facial Mimicry As a Skill That Predicts Emotion Recognition Performance.Affective science · 2026Article
- Social Cognition in Neurodegenerative Disorders.Dementia and neurocognitive disorders · 2025Review
- Children with facial differences experience deficits in emotion skills.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2025Article
- The spectrum of embodied intersubjective synchrony in empathy: from fully embodied to externally oriented engagement in Parkinson's disease.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- On the Role of Sensorimotor Experience in Facial Expression Perception.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2024Review
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- Social Cognition in Parkinson's Disease: A Case-Control Study.Movement disorders clinical practice · 2023Article
- Facial muscle movements in patients with Parkinson's disease undergoing phonation tests.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- Deficits in Emotion Recognition and Theory of Mind in Parkinson's Disease Patients With and Without Cognitive Impairments.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Efficacy of Facial Exercises in Facial Expression Categorization in Schizophrenia.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Social Symptoms of Parkinson's Disease.Parkinson's disease · 2020Review
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Abstract
Difficulty with emotion recognition is increasingly being recognized as a symptom of Parkinson's disease. Most research into this area contends that progressive cognitive decline accompanying the disease is to be blamed. However, facial mimicry (i.e., the involuntary congruent activation of facial expression muscles upon viewing a particular facial expression) might also play a role and has been relatively understudied in this clinical population. In healthy participants, facial mimicry has been shown to improve recognition of observed emotions, a phenomenon described by embodied simulation theory. Due to motor disturbances, Parkinson's disease patients frequently show reduced emotional expressiveness, which translates into reduced mimicry. Therefore, it is likely that facial mimicry problems in Parkinson's disease contribute at least partly to the emotional recognition deficits that these patients experience and might greatly influence their social cognition abilities and quality of life. The present review aims to highlight the need for further inquiry into the motor mechanisms behind emotional recognition in Parkinson's disease by synthesizing behavioural, physiological, and neuroanatomical evidence.
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