Emotion recognition in early Parkinson's disease patients undergoing deep brain stimulation or dopaminergic therapy: a comparison to healthy participants

Emotion recognition in early Parkinson's disease patients undergoing deep brain stimulation or dopaminergic therapy: a comparison to healthy participants

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is traditionally regarded as a neurodegenerative movement disorder, however, nigrostriatal dopaminergic degeneration is also thought to disrupt non-motor loops connecting basal ganglia to areas in frontal cortex involved in cognition and emotion processing. PD patients are i...

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Main Authors: Lindsey G. McIntosh, Sishir eMannava, Corrie R Camalier, Brad S. Folley, Aaron eAlbritton, Peter E. Konrad, David eCharles, Sohee ePark, Joseph eNeimat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
Subjects:
Dopamine
Levodopa
emotion recognition
DBS
healthy aging
early-stage Parkinson's disease
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnagi.2014.00349/full

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