Impairment of vocal expression of negative emotions in patients with Alzheimer's disease

Vocal expression of emotions (EE) in retrieval of events from autobiographical memory was investigated in patients in early stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Twenty-one AD patients and 19 controls were interviewed, and EE of the reported memories was rated by 8 independent evaluators. The AD...

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Published inFrontiers in aging neuroscience Vol. 6; p. 101
Main Authors Han, Kyung-Hun, Zaytseva, Yuliya, Bao, Yan, Pöppel, Ernst, Chung, Sun Yong, Kim, Jong Woo, Kim, Hyun Taek
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Frontiers Research Foundation 26.05.2014
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Summary:Vocal expression of emotions (EE) in retrieval of events from autobiographical memory was investigated in patients in early stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Twenty-one AD patients and 19 controls were interviewed, and EE of the reported memories was rated by 8 independent evaluators. The AD group had lower EE of both recent and remote memory than controls, although EE in remote memories was better preserved in both groups. We observed positive correlations between EE and indicators of cognitive competence in AD patients. AD Patients are impaired in the ability to express emotions already at early stages of the disease, and EE seems to deteriorate along with the progression of cognitive impairment.
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Kyung-Hun Han and Yuliya Zaytseva have contributed equally to this work.
Edited by: Harriet Ann Allen, University of Nottingham, UK
Reviewed by: Keith Burton, University of Illinois Springfield, USA; Peter G. Rendell, Australian Catholic University, Australia
This article was submitted to the journal Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience.
ISSN:1663-4365
1663-4365
DOI:10.3389/fnagi.2014.00101