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Altered Sense of Humor in Dementia
Sense of humor is potentially relevant to social functioning in dementias, but has been little studied in these diseases. We designed a semi-structured informant questionnaire to assess humor behavior and preferences in patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD; n = 15), semant...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4820649/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26444779 http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/JAD-150413 |
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author | Clark, Camilla N. Nicholas, Jennifer M. Gordon, Elizabeth Golden, Hannah L. Cohen, Miriam H. Woodward, Felix J. Macpherson, Kirsty Slattery, Catherine F. Mummery, Catherine J. Schott, Jonathan M. Rohrer, Jonathan D. Warren, Jason D. |
author_facet | Clark, Camilla N. Nicholas, Jennifer M. Gordon, Elizabeth Golden, Hannah L. Cohen, Miriam H. Woodward, Felix J. Macpherson, Kirsty Slattery, Catherine F. Mummery, Catherine J. Schott, Jonathan M. Rohrer, Jonathan D. Warren, Jason D. |
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description | Sense of humor is potentially relevant to social functioning in dementias, but has been little studied in these diseases. We designed a semi-structured informant questionnaire to assess humor behavior and preferences in patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD; n = 15), semantic dementia (SD; n = 7), progressive nonfluent aphasia (PNFA; n = 10), and Alzheimer’s disease (AD; n = 16) versus healthy age-matched individuals (n = 21). Altered (including frankly inappropriate) humor responses were significantly more frequent in bvFTD and SD (all patients) than PNFA or AD (around 40% of patients). All patient groups liked satirical and absurdist comedy significantly less than did healthy controls. This pattern was reported premorbidly for satirical comedy in bvFTD, PNFA, and AD. Liking for slapstick comedy did not differ between groups. Altered sense of humor is particularly salient in bvFTD and SD, but also frequent in AD and PNFA. Humor may be a sensitive probe of social cognitive impairment in dementia, with diagnostic, biomarker and social implications. |
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spelling | pubmed-48206492016-04-05 Altered Sense of Humor in Dementia Clark, Camilla N. Nicholas, Jennifer M. Gordon, Elizabeth Golden, Hannah L. Cohen, Miriam H. Woodward, Felix J. Macpherson, Kirsty Slattery, Catherine F. Mummery, Catherine J. Schott, Jonathan M. Rohrer, Jonathan D. Warren, Jason D. J Alzheimers Dis Research Article Sense of humor is potentially relevant to social functioning in dementias, but has been little studied in these diseases. We designed a semi-structured informant questionnaire to assess humor behavior and preferences in patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD; n = 15), semantic dementia (SD; n = 7), progressive nonfluent aphasia (PNFA; n = 10), and Alzheimer’s disease (AD; n = 16) versus healthy age-matched individuals (n = 21). Altered (including frankly inappropriate) humor responses were significantly more frequent in bvFTD and SD (all patients) than PNFA or AD (around 40% of patients). All patient groups liked satirical and absurdist comedy significantly less than did healthy controls. This pattern was reported premorbidly for satirical comedy in bvFTD, PNFA, and AD. Liking for slapstick comedy did not differ between groups. Altered sense of humor is particularly salient in bvFTD and SD, but also frequent in AD and PNFA. Humor may be a sensitive probe of social cognitive impairment in dementia, with diagnostic, biomarker and social implications. IOS Press 2015-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4820649/ /pubmed/26444779 http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/JAD-150413 Text en IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Clark, Camilla N. Nicholas, Jennifer M. Gordon, Elizabeth Golden, Hannah L. Cohen, Miriam H. Woodward, Felix J. Macpherson, Kirsty Slattery, Catherine F. Mummery, Catherine J. Schott, Jonathan M. Rohrer, Jonathan D. Warren, Jason D. Altered Sense of Humor in Dementia |
title | Altered Sense of Humor in Dementia |
title_full | Altered Sense of Humor in Dementia |
title_fullStr | Altered Sense of Humor in Dementia |
title_full_unstemmed | Altered Sense of Humor in Dementia |
title_short | Altered Sense of Humor in Dementia |
title_sort | altered sense of humor in dementia |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4820649/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26444779 http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/JAD-150413 |
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