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Facial Emotion Recognition in Patients with Post-Paralytic Facial Synkinesis—A Present Competence

Facial palsy is a movement disorder with impacts on verbal and nonverbal communication. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of post-paralytic facial synkinesis on facial emotion recognition. In a prospective cross-sectional study, we compared facial emotion recognition between n = 30...

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Autores principales: Kuttenreich, Anna-Maria, Volk, Gerd Fabian, Guntinas-Lichius, Orlando, von Piekartz, Harry, Heim, Stefan
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Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9139660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35626294
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12051138
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author Kuttenreich, Anna-Maria
Volk, Gerd Fabian
Guntinas-Lichius, Orlando
von Piekartz, Harry
Heim, Stefan
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Volk, Gerd Fabian
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description Facial palsy is a movement disorder with impacts on verbal and nonverbal communication. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of post-paralytic facial synkinesis on facial emotion recognition. In a prospective cross-sectional study, we compared facial emotion recognition between n = 30 patients with post-paralytic facial synkinesis (mean disease time: 1581 ± 1237 days) and n = 30 healthy controls matched in sex, age, and education level. Facial emotion recognition was measured by the Myfacetraining Program. As an intra-individual control condition, auditory emotion recognition was assessed via Montreal Affective Voices. Moreover, self-assessed emotion recognition was studied with questionnaires. In facial as well as auditory emotion recognition, on average, there was no significant difference between patients and healthy controls. The outcomes of the measurements as well as the self-reports were comparable between patients and healthy controls. In contrast to previous studies in patients with peripheral and central facial palsy, these results indicate unimpaired ability for facial emotion recognition. Only in single patients with pronounced facial asymmetry and severe facial synkinesis was an impaired facial and auditory emotion recognition detected. Further studies should compare emotion recognition in patients with pronounced facial asymmetry in acute and chronic peripheral paralysis and central and peripheral facial palsy.
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spelling pubmed-91396602022-05-28 Facial Emotion Recognition in Patients with Post-Paralytic Facial Synkinesis—A Present Competence Kuttenreich, Anna-Maria Volk, Gerd Fabian Guntinas-Lichius, Orlando von Piekartz, Harry Heim, Stefan Diagnostics (Basel) Article Facial palsy is a movement disorder with impacts on verbal and nonverbal communication. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of post-paralytic facial synkinesis on facial emotion recognition. In a prospective cross-sectional study, we compared facial emotion recognition between n = 30 patients with post-paralytic facial synkinesis (mean disease time: 1581 ± 1237 days) and n = 30 healthy controls matched in sex, age, and education level. Facial emotion recognition was measured by the Myfacetraining Program. As an intra-individual control condition, auditory emotion recognition was assessed via Montreal Affective Voices. Moreover, self-assessed emotion recognition was studied with questionnaires. In facial as well as auditory emotion recognition, on average, there was no significant difference between patients and healthy controls. The outcomes of the measurements as well as the self-reports were comparable between patients and healthy controls. In contrast to previous studies in patients with peripheral and central facial palsy, these results indicate unimpaired ability for facial emotion recognition. Only in single patients with pronounced facial asymmetry and severe facial synkinesis was an impaired facial and auditory emotion recognition detected. Further studies should compare emotion recognition in patients with pronounced facial asymmetry in acute and chronic peripheral paralysis and central and peripheral facial palsy. MDPI 2022-05-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9139660/ /pubmed/35626294 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12051138 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_short Facial Emotion Recognition in Patients with Post-Paralytic Facial Synkinesis—A Present Competence
title_sort facial emotion recognition in patients with post-paralytic facial synkinesis—a present competence
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9139660/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12051138
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