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| Emotion processing in Alzheimer's disease | | Author(s) | R S Bucks, S A Radford |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 8, no 3, May 2004 |
| Pages | pp 222-232 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Emotions ; Cognitive processes ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | 12 adults with a diagnosis of "probable" Alzheimer's disease (AD) and 12 matched older adult healthy comparison participants undertook a series of tasks involving face and prosody discrimination. The aim was to examine relative changes in cognition and in recognition and identification of non-verbal communication signals of emotion in those suffering from AD. Facial stimuli were presented on cards, and prosodic stimuli on audio tape. Scores were compared with a measure of general cognitive ability. There was a significant difference between the AD and healthy groups on emotion and cognitive tasks respectively. However, the ability to recognise and identify non-verbal affect cues or emotional facial expressions and emotional prosody was preserved relative to general cognitive ability in those suffering from AD. No differences were found in the recognition of different emotions (happiness, sadness, anger, fear or neutral). The relative sparing of non-verbal emotional processing skills has implications for provision of assessment and interventions based on the creation of effective forms of communication that are less reliant on cognitive ability. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040618209 A |
| Classmark | EA: DL: DA: 4C |
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