Impaired Emotional Mirroring in Parkinson’s Disease—A Study on Brain Activation during Processing of Facial Expressions

Impaired Emotional Mirroring in Parkinson’s Disease—A Study on Brain Activation during Processing of Facial Expressions

BackgroundAffective dysfunctions are common in patients with Parkinson’s disease, but the underlying neurobiological deviations have rarely been examined. Parkinson’s disease is characterized by a loss of dopamine neurons in the substantia nigra resulting in impairment of motor and non-motor basal g...

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Main Authors: Anna Pohl, Silke Anders, Hong Chen, Harshal Jayeshkumar Patel, Julia Heller, Kathrin Reetz, Klaus Mathiak, Ferdinand Binkofski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurology
Subjects:
neurodegeneration
mirror neurons
emotion
functional MRI
facial emotions
Parkinson’s disease
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fneur.2017.00682/full

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