ArticleJournal of neuropsychology2021
The neural underpinnings of facial emotion recognition in ischemic stroke patients.
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- The shared neural substrates of emotional mimicry and emotional contagion: an activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis and meta-analytic connectivity modeling analysis.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Pooled it
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- Neuropsychological impairments in emotion recognition compared to general cognition: profiles across six different neurological disorders.Journal of neurology · 2026Article
- Inside the frontal face network: multimodal evidence for distinct emotional and motor resonance circuits.Brain structure & function · 2026Article
- Neural correlates of social cognition in stroke and traumatic brain injury: A systematic review.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Review
- Good recovery is not full recovery: emotion recognition deficits and different regulation strategies in mild right-hemisphere ischemic stroke survivors.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Overwork and changes in brain structure: a pilot study.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2025Article
- Social cognitive function in stroke survivors: A scoping review.Cerebral circulation - cognition and behavior · 2025Review
- Right hemisphere stroke is linked to reduced social connectedness in the UK Biobank cohort.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Anatomo-functional basis of emotional and motor resonance elicited by facial expressions.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2024Article
- Behavioral and neuroanatomical correlates of facial emotion processing in post-stroke depression.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2024Article
- Blunted superior temporal gyrus activity to negative emotional expression after mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for late-life depression.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Deficits in facial emotion recognition occur frequently after stroke, with adverse social and behavioural consequences. The aim of this study was to investigate the neural underpinnings of the recognition of emotional expressions, in particular of the distinct basic emotions (anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise). A group of 110 ischaemic stroke patients with lesions in (sub)cortical areas of the cerebrum was included. Emotion recognition was assessed with the Ekman 60 Faces Test of the FEEST. Patient data were compared to data of 162 matched healthy controls (HC's). For the patients, whole brain voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping (VLSM) on 3-Tesla MRI images was performed. Results showed that patients performed significantly worse than HC's on both overall recognition of emotions, and specifically of disgust, fear, sadness and surprise. VLSM showed significant lesion-symptom associations for FEEST total in the right fronto-temporal region. Additionally, VLSM for the distinct emotions showed, apart from overlapping brain regions (insula, putamen and Rolandic operculum), also regions related to specific emotions. These were: middle and superior temporal gyrus (anger); caudate nucleus (disgust); superior corona radiate white matter tract, superior longitudinal fasciculus and middle frontal gyrus (happiness) and inferior frontal gyrus (sadness). Our findings help in understanding how lesions in specific brain regions can selectively affect the recognition of the basic emotions.
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