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dc.contributor.authorVandekerckhove, Marie
dc.contributor.authorPlessers, Maarten
dc.contributor.authorVan Mieghem, Arno
dc.contributor.authorBeeckmans, Kurt
dc.contributor.authorVan Acker, Frederik
dc.contributor.authorMaex, Reinoud
dc.contributor.authorMarkowitsch, Hans
dc.contributor.authorMariën, Peter
dc.contributor.authorVan Overwalle, Frank
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-10T18:36:57Z
dc.date.available2018-04-10T18:36:57Z
dc.date.issued2014-07-01
dc.identifier.citationVandekerckhove , M , Plessers , M , Van Mieghem , A , Beeckmans , K , Van Acker , F , Maex , R , Markowitsch , H , Mariën , P & Van Overwalle , F 2014 , ' Impaired facial emotion recognition in patients with ventromedial prefrontal hypoperfusion ' , Neuropsychology , vol. 28 , no. 4 , pp. 605-12 . https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000057
dc.identifier.issn0894-4105
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 13241584
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 6aafc6b3-1bdc-481b-a470-f571db12e3ea
dc.identifier.otherPubMed: 24773416
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 84904046618
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2299/19958
dc.descriptionThis article has been accepted for publication in Neuropsychology, © 2014 American Psychological Association. doi: 0.1037/neu0000057.
dc.description.abstractEmpathy refers to our ability to recognize and share emotions by another human being. Impairment may underlie many of the emotional deficits commonly associated with a range of neuropsychiatric and neurological conditions. The prefrontal cortex (PFC) has long been implicated in these processes, but the specific contribution of subregions of the PFC remain unclear. Studies regarding the role of subregions of the prefrontal cortex such as the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC)-in facial emotion recognition have yielded inconsistent results. The present study aimed to investigate the capacity to recognize nonverbal emotional facial expressions in a group of patients with the following: (a) perfusion deficits in the vmPFC (vmPFC group; N = 13), (b) hypoperfusions sparing the vmPFC (nonvmPFC group; N = 12), and in (c) a control group of healthy volunteers (control group; N = 17). Regions of hypoperfusion were identified by means of Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT). Participants were asked to recognize facial expressions of the 7 basic emotions (happiness, fear, surprise, anger, disgust, sadness, or neutral). Detection of facial expressions of fear, disgust, and surprise was affected after functional disruption of the vmPFC. The present study confirms the role of the vmPFC in recognizing emotional facial expressions.en
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofNeuropsychology
dc.subjectEmotion Expression
dc.subjectAnalysis of Variance
dc.subjectBrain Diseases
dc.subjectEmpathy
dc.subjectFacial Expression
dc.subjectSPECT
dc.subjectNeuropsychology
dc.subjectNeuroimiging
dc.subjectMemory Disorders
dc.subjectPrefrontal Cortex
dc.subjectRecognition (Psychology)
dc.subjectTomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
dc.titleImpaired facial emotion recognition in patients with ventromedial prefrontal hypoperfusionen
dc.contributor.institutionDepartment of Computer Science
dc.contributor.institutionSchool of Physics, Engineering & Computer Science
dc.contributor.institutionBiocomputation Research Group
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