ArticleJournal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996)2021
Affective and cognitive theory of mind in patients with cervical dystonia with and without tremor.
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- A Systematic Review of Cognition in Cervical Dystonia.Neuropsychology review · 2024Pooled it
- Social cognition in idiopathic focal dystonia: preliminary evidence on its relationship with cognitive and affective-behavioral functioning.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026Article
- Understanding cognitive features of cervical dystonia: application of the cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome scale (CCAS-S).Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2025Article
- Non-Motor Symptoms and Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Isolated Dystonia: A Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Are Cognitive Symptoms Part of the Phenotypic Spectrum of Idiopathic Adult-Onset Dystonia? Summary of Evidence from Controlled Studies.Movement disorders clinical practice · 2024Review
- Social cognition in cervical dystonia.Clinical parkinsonism & related disorders · 2023Article
- Cognitive and Neuropsychiatric Impairment in Dystonia.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2022Review
- Evidence of the role of the cerebellum in cognitive theory of mind using voxel-based lesion mapping.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Cognitive impairment in Chinese patients with cervical dystonia.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- Quality of life in isolated dystonia: non-motor manifestations matter.Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry · 2021Article
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Abstract
Theory of mind (ToM) refers to an individual's ability to attribute mental states to predict and explain another person's behavior. It has been shown that patients with cervical dystonia (CD) present impaired ToM ability supporting the idea that CD is a network disorder. An emerging hypothesis is that different phenotypes of CD reflect distinct key nodes in the malfunctioning cerebral network. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether the presence of tremor as additional phenotypic feature of CD influences the ability to attribute a cognitive or emotional state to another person. We enrolled 35 patients with CD, 21 with tremor (CD-T) and 14 without tremor (CD-NT) and 47 age-matched healthy subjects (HS). The Emotion Attribution Task (EAT) was adopted to assess the affective ToM ability while the Advanced Test (AT) was used to investigate the cognitive ToM ability. Results showed that CD patients' performance was worse than HS in recognizing the emotional feelings expressed in the EAT situations, with no difference between CD-T and CD-NT. Regarding cognitive ToM, both CD-T and CD-NT performed worse than HS in the AT task. However, it also emerged that CD-T were more impaired in AT task than CD-NT. Our results indicate that both affective and cognitive aspects of ToM are impaired in CD and that cognitive ToM is more impaired in patients presenting tremor respect to those without. These findings support the hypothesis that the cerebral network responsible of motor and non-motor impairments is more widespread in CD-T than CD-NT.
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