Facial emotion recognition is inversely correlated with tremor severity in essential tremor
J Neural Transm. 2013-11-01; 121(4): 347-351
DOI: 10.1007/s00702-013-1110-1
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1. J Neural Transm (Vienna). 2014 Apr;121(4):347-51. doi: 10.1007/s00702-013-1110-1.
Epub 2013 Nov 1.
Facial emotion recognition is inversely correlated with tremor severity in
essential tremor.
Auzou N(1), Foubert-Samier A, Dupouy S, Meissner WG.
Author information:
(1)Service de Neurologie, CHU de Bordeaux, Hôpital du Haut-Lévêque, Avenue
Magellan, 33604, Pessac Cedex, France.
We here assess limbic and orbitofrontal control in 20 patients with essential
tremor (ET) and 18 age-matched healthy controls using the Ekman Facial Emotion
Recognition Task and the IOWA Gambling Task. Our results show an inverse relation
between facial emotion recognition and tremor severity. ET patients also showed
worse performance in joy and fear recognition, as well as subtle abnormalities in
risk detection, but these differences did not reach significance after correction
for multiple testing.
DOI: 10.1007/s00702-013-1110-1
PMID: 24178244 [Indexed for MEDLINE]