ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
Emotional Processing in Healthy Ageing, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Alzheimer's Disease.
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- Social cognition in mild cognitive impairment and dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Pooled it
- Emotion recognition and processing in patients with mild cognitive impairment: A systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Pooled it
- Subregional limbic radiomics on FDG-PET provides accurate early detection of Alzheimer's disease.BMC medical imaging · 2026Article
- Facial Emotion Recognition Deficits and Electroencephalogram Alterations in Mild Behavioral Impairment.Neuro-degenerative diseases · 2026Article
- Comparing Emotion Regulation Success in the Lab and Daily Life Contexts in a Cognitively Diverse Sample.Affective science · 2025Article
- The Story behind the Mask: A Narrative Review on Hypomimia in Parkinson's Disease.Brain sciences · 2024Review
- Age-related reduction in anxiety and neural encoding of negative emotional memory.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2024Article
- Deficits of Facial Emotion Recognition in Elderly Individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment.Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders · 2024Article
- The role of emotional instability in borderline personality disorder: a systematic review.Annals of general psychiatry · 2023Review
- Dyadic coping in couples experiencing mild cognitive impairment.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
- Emotion Processing Dysfunction in Alzheimer's Disease: An Overview of Behavioral Findings, Systems Neural Correlates, and Underlying Neural Biology.American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementiasReview
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Abstract
Emotional processing, particularly facial expression recognition, is essential for social cognition, and dysfunction may be associated with poor cognitive health. In pathological ageing conditions, such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD), in which cognitive impairments are present, disturbed emotional processing and difficulty with social interactions have been documented. However, it is unclear how pathological ageing affects emotional processing and human social behaviour. The aim of this study is to provide insight into how emotional processing is affected in MCI and AD and whether this capacity can constitute a differentiating factor allowing the preclinical diagnosis of both diseases. For this purpose, an ecological emotional battery adapted from five subsets of the Florida Affect Battery was used. Given that emotion may not be separated from cognition, the affect battery was divided into subtests according to cognitive demand, resulting in three blocks. Our results showed that individuals with MCI or AD had poorer performance on the emotional processing tasks, although with different patterns, than that of controls. Cognitive demand may be responsible for the execution patterns of different emotional processing tests. Tasks with moderate cognitive demand are the most sensitive for discriminating between two cognitive impairment entities. In summary, emotional processing tasks may aid in characterising the neurocognitive deficits in MCI or AD. Additionally, identifying these deficits may be useful for developing interventions that specifically target these emotional processing problems.
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