ReviewBrain sciences2024
The Story behind the Mask: A Narrative Review on Hypomimia in Parkinson's Disease.
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- Leaky Bodies and Everyday Disclosure and Exposure in the Neurodegenerative Illness Stories of Younger People With Parkinson's Disease.Sociology of health & illness · 2026Article
- Artificial Intelligence and Digital Biomarkers for Early Detection and Monitoring of Neurological Disorders: A Narrative Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Orofacial Central Pattern Generators: Neuroanatomical and Clinical Insights into Sensory, Motor, Emotional Integration.Experimental neurobiology · 2026Review
- From Prototype to Clinical Workflow: Co-Developing a Wearable Hypomimia System for Parkinson's Disease.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The social cost of facial bradykinesia: a scoping review of interpersonal outcomes related to Parkinsonian hypomimia.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2026Review
- Cross-sectional stratification of fall-related vulnerability in Parkinson's disease through multimodal fusion of speech, gait, facial expression, and upper-limb movement.Frontiers in digital health · 2026Article
- Distinct neural temporal architectures encode rapid social expressions and sustained internal mood states.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Facial Expression Metrics as Digital Biomarkers of Neurologic Disease.Neurology open access · 2025Article
- Normative surface electromyography values for the orbicularis oculi muscle in healthy control subjects.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Perceived social support in the daily life of people with Parkinson's disease: a distinct role and potential classifier.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Dual stream transformer for medication state classification in Parkinson's disease patients using facial videos.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Article
- Facial expression analysis to uncover the relationship between sialorrhea and hypomimia in Parkinson's disease.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Eye movements during the Iowa Gambling Task in Parkinson's disease: a brief report.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Automated identification of early to mid-stage Parkinson's disease using deep convolutional neural networks on static facial images.Frontiers in medical technology · 2025Article
- Emotional atypical arousal ratings for unpleasant stimuli in patients with Parkinson's disease.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2024Article
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8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Facial movements are crucial for social and emotional interaction and well-being. Reduced facial expressions (i.e., hypomimia) is a common feature in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and previous studies linked this manifestation to both motor symptoms of the disease and altered emotion recognition and processing. Nevertheless, research on facial motor impairment in PD has been rather scarce and only a limited number of clinical evaluation tools are available, often suffering from poor validation processes and high inter- and intra-rater variability. In recent years, the availability of technology-enhanced quantification methods of facial movements, such as automated video analysis and machine learning application, led to increasing interest in studying hypomimia in PD. In this narrative review, we summarize the current knowledge on pathophysiological hypotheses at the basis of hypomimia in PD, with particular focus on the association between reduced facial expressions and emotional processing and analyze the current evaluation tools and management strategies for this symptom, as well as future research perspectives.
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