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Social cognition and social functioning in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s dementia
The aim of the present study was to examine social cognition and social functioning in a group of amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) and Alzheimer’s dementia (AD) patients. Thirty one people with aMCI, 29 individuals with AD, and 45 healthy older adults participated in the study. Facial expre...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8247057/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32979297 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jnp.12223 |
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author | Kessels, Roy P. C. Waanders‐Oude Elferink, Maaike van Tilborg, Ilse |
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description | The aim of the present study was to examine social cognition and social functioning in a group of amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) and Alzheimer’s dementia (AD) patients. Thirty one people with aMCI, 29 individuals with AD, and 45 healthy older adults participated in the study. Facial expressions of happiness, anger, fear, disgust, and surprise presented in different intensities had to be labelled. Mentalizing was assessed using first‐order belief theory of mind (ToM) stories and everyday social functioning by the Inventory of Interpersonal Situations (IIS), completed by an informant. aMCI patients were impaired in recognizing the emotions anger, disgust, and fear, while AD patients were impaired in recognizing the emotions anger, disgust, and surprise. More importantly, no significant differences between aMCI and AD patients were found on overall emotion recognition. Both the aMCI and AD patients were impaired on the ToM task, but no differences between the aMCI and AD patients were found. On everyday social functioning, only the AD patients showed impairments. No associations between the IIS and ToM were found, but the IIS and emotion perception were significantly correlated. Regression analysis taking all potentially confounding variables into account showed that only mood, but not the social‐cognitive task performance or any other cognitive variable, predicted social functioning. aMCI and AD patients demonstrated impairments in mentalizing and facial emotion perception, and showed decrements in everyday social functioning. Informing caregivers about these deficits may help them to understand deficits in social cognition that may be present already in the MCI stage of Alzheimer’s disease. |
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spelling | pubmed-82470572021-07-02 Social cognition and social functioning in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s dementia Kessels, Roy P. C. Waanders‐Oude Elferink, Maaike van Tilborg, Ilse J Neuropsychol Original Articles The aim of the present study was to examine social cognition and social functioning in a group of amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) and Alzheimer’s dementia (AD) patients. Thirty one people with aMCI, 29 individuals with AD, and 45 healthy older adults participated in the study. Facial expressions of happiness, anger, fear, disgust, and surprise presented in different intensities had to be labelled. Mentalizing was assessed using first‐order belief theory of mind (ToM) stories and everyday social functioning by the Inventory of Interpersonal Situations (IIS), completed by an informant. aMCI patients were impaired in recognizing the emotions anger, disgust, and fear, while AD patients were impaired in recognizing the emotions anger, disgust, and surprise. More importantly, no significant differences between aMCI and AD patients were found on overall emotion recognition. Both the aMCI and AD patients were impaired on the ToM task, but no differences between the aMCI and AD patients were found. On everyday social functioning, only the AD patients showed impairments. No associations between the IIS and ToM were found, but the IIS and emotion perception were significantly correlated. Regression analysis taking all potentially confounding variables into account showed that only mood, but not the social‐cognitive task performance or any other cognitive variable, predicted social functioning. aMCI and AD patients demonstrated impairments in mentalizing and facial emotion perception, and showed decrements in everyday social functioning. Informing caregivers about these deficits may help them to understand deficits in social cognition that may be present already in the MCI stage of Alzheimer’s disease. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-09-26 2021-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8247057/ /pubmed/32979297 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jnp.12223 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Journal of Neuropsychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Psychological Society https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Kessels, Roy P. C. Waanders‐Oude Elferink, Maaike van Tilborg, Ilse Social cognition and social functioning in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s dementia |
title | Social cognition and social functioning in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s dementia |
title_full | Social cognition and social functioning in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s dementia |
title_fullStr | Social cognition and social functioning in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s dementia |
title_full_unstemmed | Social cognition and social functioning in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s dementia |
title_short | Social cognition and social functioning in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s dementia |
title_sort | social cognition and social functioning in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment or alzheimer’s dementia |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8247057/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32979297 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jnp.12223 |
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