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An Investigation of Emotion Recognition and Theory of Mind in People with Chronic Heart Failure
OBJECTIVES: Cognitive deficits are common in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF), but no study has investigated whether these deficits extend to social cognition. The present study provided the first empirical assessment of emotion recognition and theory of mind (ToM) in patients with CHF. In...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4631439/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26529409 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141607 |
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author | Habota, Tina McLennan, Skye N. Cameron, Jan Ski, Chantal F. Thompson, David R. Rendell, Peter G. |
author_facet | Habota, Tina McLennan, Skye N. Cameron, Jan Ski, Chantal F. Thompson, David R. Rendell, Peter G. |
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description | OBJECTIVES: Cognitive deficits are common in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF), but no study has investigated whether these deficits extend to social cognition. The present study provided the first empirical assessment of emotion recognition and theory of mind (ToM) in patients with CHF. In addition, it assessed whether each of these social cognitive constructs was associated with more general cognitive impairment. METHODS: A group comparison design was used, with 31 CHF patients compared to 38 demographically matched controls. The Ekman Faces test was used to assess emotion recognition, and the Mind in the Eyes test to measure ToM. Measures assessing global cognition, executive functions, and verbal memory were also administered. RESULTS: There were no differences between groups on emotion recognition or ToM. The CHF group’s performance was poorer on some executive measures, but memory was relatively preserved. In the CHF group, both emotion recognition performance and ToM ability correlated moderately with global cognition (r = .38, p = .034; r = .49, p = .005, respectively), but not with executive function or verbal memory. CONCLUSION: CHF patients with lower cognitive ability were more likely to have difficulty recognizing emotions and inferring the mental states of others. Clinical implications of these findings are discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-46314392015-11-13 An Investigation of Emotion Recognition and Theory of Mind in People with Chronic Heart Failure Habota, Tina McLennan, Skye N. Cameron, Jan Ski, Chantal F. Thompson, David R. Rendell, Peter G. PLoS One Research Article OBJECTIVES: Cognitive deficits are common in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF), but no study has investigated whether these deficits extend to social cognition. The present study provided the first empirical assessment of emotion recognition and theory of mind (ToM) in patients with CHF. In addition, it assessed whether each of these social cognitive constructs was associated with more general cognitive impairment. METHODS: A group comparison design was used, with 31 CHF patients compared to 38 demographically matched controls. The Ekman Faces test was used to assess emotion recognition, and the Mind in the Eyes test to measure ToM. Measures assessing global cognition, executive functions, and verbal memory were also administered. RESULTS: There were no differences between groups on emotion recognition or ToM. The CHF group’s performance was poorer on some executive measures, but memory was relatively preserved. In the CHF group, both emotion recognition performance and ToM ability correlated moderately with global cognition (r = .38, p = .034; r = .49, p = .005, respectively), but not with executive function or verbal memory. CONCLUSION: CHF patients with lower cognitive ability were more likely to have difficulty recognizing emotions and inferring the mental states of others. Clinical implications of these findings are discussed. Public Library of Science 2015-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4631439/ /pubmed/26529409 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141607 Text en © 2015 Habota et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Habota, Tina McLennan, Skye N. Cameron, Jan Ski, Chantal F. Thompson, David R. Rendell, Peter G. An Investigation of Emotion Recognition and Theory of Mind in People with Chronic Heart Failure |
title | An Investigation of Emotion Recognition and Theory of Mind in People with Chronic Heart Failure |
title_full | An Investigation of Emotion Recognition and Theory of Mind in People with Chronic Heart Failure |
title_fullStr | An Investigation of Emotion Recognition and Theory of Mind in People with Chronic Heart Failure |
title_full_unstemmed | An Investigation of Emotion Recognition and Theory of Mind in People with Chronic Heart Failure |
title_short | An Investigation of Emotion Recognition and Theory of Mind in People with Chronic Heart Failure |
title_sort | investigation of emotion recognition and theory of mind in people with chronic heart failure |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4631439/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26529409 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141607 |
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