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Review
. 2019 Sep 1;69(5):207-219.
doi: 10.33588/rn.6905.2019047.

Facial emotion recognition in neurological disorders: a narrative review

[Article in Spanish, English]
S Marco-Garcia  1 , M Ferrer-Quintero  1 , J Usall  1 , S Ochoa  1 , N Del Cacho  1 , E Huerta-Ramos  1
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Facial emotion recognition in neurological disorders: a narrative review

[Article in Spanish, English]
S Marco-Garcia et al. Rev Neurol. .
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Abstract
in English, Spanish

Facial emotion recognition refers to a person's interpretation of facial features of another to identify a particular emotional state. It is essential in human evolution and encompasses distinct neural networks. Facial emotion recognition is altered in most neurodegenerative diseases, but literature just focus on single neurological pathologies or limited comparison with psychiatric pathologies. It is unknown if a common pattern of affection through pathologies exists or if facial emotion recognition changes according to the underlying pathology. This review discusses its development in healthy population, synthesizes facial emotion recognition studies regarding most common neurological diseases, as well as most relevant findings in neuroimaging and current treatments. Facial emotion recognition, especially negative emotions, is altered in all described neurodegenerative diseases and could constitutes an early marker of cognitive deterioration.

Title: Reconocimiento facial de emociones en trastornos neurologicos: una revision narrativa.

El reconocimiento facial de emociones hace referencia a la interpretacion de una persona sobre los rasgos faciales de otra para identificar un determinado estado emocional. Es esencial en la evolucion humana y abarca distintas redes neuronales. A pesar de que el reconocimiento facial de emociones se ve alterado en la mayoria de las enfermedades neurodegenerativas, la bibliografia solo se centra en patologias neurologicas individuales o en limitadas comparaciones con patologias psiquiatricas. Se desconoce si existe un patron comun de alteracion entre las patologias o si el reconocimiento facial de emociones cambia segun el trastorno subyacente. Esta revision describe su desarrollo en poblacion sana y sintetiza los estudios de reconocimiento facial de emociones en relacion con las enfermedades neurologicas mas comunes, asi como los hallazgos mas relevantes de neuroimagen y los tratamientos actuales. El reconocimiento facial de emociones, especialmente en emociones negativas, esta alterado en todas las enfermedades neurodegenerativas descritas y podria constituir en algunos casos un marcador temprano de deterioro cognitivo.

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