Meta-Analysis of Facial Emotion Recognition in Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia: Comparison With Alzheimer Disease and Healthy Controls

BORA İ. E., Velakoulis D., Walterfang M.

JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY, cilt.29, sa.4, ss.205-211, 2016 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 29 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2016
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1177/0891988716640375
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.205-211
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: frontotemporal dementia, Alzheimer disease, social cognition, emotion recognition, IMPAIRED RECOGNITION, SOCIAL COGNITION, DECODING ABILITIES, LOBAR DEGENERATION, EXPRESSIONS, EMPATHY, FACE, MIND
  • Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Behavioral disturbances and lack of empathy are distinctive clinical features of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) in comparison to Alzheimer disease (AD). The aim of this meta-analytic review was to compare facial emotion recognition performances of bvFTD with healthy controls and AD. The current meta-analysis included a total of 19 studies and involved comparisons of 288 individuals with bvFTD and 329 healthy controls and 162 bvFTD and 147 patients with AD. Facial emotion recognition was significantly impaired in bvFTD in comparison to the healthy controls (d = 1.81) and AD (d = 1.23). In bvFTD, recognition of negative emotions, especially anger (d = 1.48) and disgust (d = 1.41), were severely impaired. Emotion recognition was significantly impaired in bvFTD in comparison to AD in all emotions other than happiness. Impairment of emotion recognition is a relatively specific feature of bvFTD. Routine assessment of social-cognitive abilities including emotion recognition can be helpful in better differentiating between cortical dementias such as bvFTD and AD.