Facial Emotion Recognition Impairment in Patients with Parkinson's Disease and Isolated Apathy

Apathy is a frequent feature of Parkinson's disease (PD), usually related with executive dysfunction. However, in a subgroup of PD patients apathy may represent the only or predominant neuropsychiatric feature. To understand the mechanisms underlying apathy in PD, we investigated emotional proc...

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Main Authors: Mercè Martínez-Corral, Javier Pagonabarraga, Gisela Llebaria, Berta Pascual-Sedano, Carmen García-Sánchez, Alexandre Gironell, Jaime Kulisevsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2010-01-01
Series:Parkinson's Disease
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2010/930627