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An Impairment of Recognizing Emotional Facial Expressions in Parkinson's Disease
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Hideki NAKAJIMA .et.al
… of hypoperfusion in the occipital lobe, while also demonstrating an impairment in recognizing the facial emotionsfor both anger and happiness.The ability to recognize the facial emotions for happiness has been shown to be closely associated with a decreased cerebralblood flow (CBF) in the right occipital lobe.In PD patients, an impairment in recognizing emotional facial expressions might be partially due to an occipital cortical dysfunction.As the present study is a preliminary one, further studies are thus needed to elucidate the mechanism of such …
Acta medica Nagasakiensia 57(3), 69-77, 2013-02-00