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Altered recognition of fearful and angry facial expressions in women with fibromyalgia syndrome: an experimental case–control study

Evidence relative to facial emotion recognition and the role played by alexithymia in fibromyalgia syndrome is rare and heterogeneous. In this work, we investigated this ability in fibromyalgia investigating the implicit behaviour in the facial emotion recognition task, focusing on fear and anger. T...

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Autores principales: Scarpina, Federica, Ghiggia, Ada, Vaioli, Giulia, Varallo, Giorgia, Capodaglio, Paolo, Arreghini, Marco, Castelnuovo, Gianluca, Mauro, Alessandro, Castelli, Lorys
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9747799/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36513716
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25824-9
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author Scarpina, Federica
Ghiggia, Ada
Vaioli, Giulia
Varallo, Giorgia
Capodaglio, Paolo
Arreghini, Marco
Castelnuovo, Gianluca
Mauro, Alessandro
Castelli, Lorys
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Ghiggia, Ada
Vaioli, Giulia
Varallo, Giorgia
Capodaglio, Paolo
Arreghini, Marco
Castelnuovo, Gianluca
Mauro, Alessandro
Castelli, Lorys
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description Evidence relative to facial emotion recognition and the role played by alexithymia in fibromyalgia syndrome is rare and heterogeneous. In this work, we investigated this ability in fibromyalgia investigating the implicit behaviour in the facial emotion recognition task, focusing on fear and anger. Twenty women with fibromyalgia and twenty healthy women as controls performed a facial emotion recognition of fearful and angry expressions. Their implicit behaviour was scored in accordance with the redundant target effect. The level of alexithymic traits through a standard psychological questionnaire and its effect on behavioral performance were also assessed. Participants affected by fibromyalgia reported a lower level of accuracy in recognizing fearful and angry expressions, in comparison with the controls. Crucially, such a difference was not explained by the different levels of alexithymic traits between groups. Our results agreed with some previous evidence suggesting an altered recognition of others’ emotional facial expressions in fibromyalgia syndrome. Considering the role of emotion recognition on social cognition and psychological well-being in fibromyalgia, we underlined the crucial role of emotional difficulties in the onset and maintenance of the symptoms life-span.
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spelling pubmed-97477992022-12-15 Altered recognition of fearful and angry facial expressions in women with fibromyalgia syndrome: an experimental case–control study Scarpina, Federica Ghiggia, Ada Vaioli, Giulia Varallo, Giorgia Capodaglio, Paolo Arreghini, Marco Castelnuovo, Gianluca Mauro, Alessandro Castelli, Lorys Sci Rep Article Evidence relative to facial emotion recognition and the role played by alexithymia in fibromyalgia syndrome is rare and heterogeneous. In this work, we investigated this ability in fibromyalgia investigating the implicit behaviour in the facial emotion recognition task, focusing on fear and anger. Twenty women with fibromyalgia and twenty healthy women as controls performed a facial emotion recognition of fearful and angry expressions. Their implicit behaviour was scored in accordance with the redundant target effect. The level of alexithymic traits through a standard psychological questionnaire and its effect on behavioral performance were also assessed. Participants affected by fibromyalgia reported a lower level of accuracy in recognizing fearful and angry expressions, in comparison with the controls. Crucially, such a difference was not explained by the different levels of alexithymic traits between groups. Our results agreed with some previous evidence suggesting an altered recognition of others’ emotional facial expressions in fibromyalgia syndrome. Considering the role of emotion recognition on social cognition and psychological well-being in fibromyalgia, we underlined the crucial role of emotional difficulties in the onset and maintenance of the symptoms life-span. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-12-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9747799/ /pubmed/36513716 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25824-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Varallo, Giorgia
Capodaglio, Paolo
Arreghini, Marco
Castelnuovo, Gianluca
Mauro, Alessandro
Castelli, Lorys
Altered recognition of fearful and angry facial expressions in women with fibromyalgia syndrome: an experimental case–control study
title Altered recognition of fearful and angry facial expressions in women with fibromyalgia syndrome: an experimental case–control study
title_full Altered recognition of fearful and angry facial expressions in women with fibromyalgia syndrome: an experimental case–control study
title_fullStr Altered recognition of fearful and angry facial expressions in women with fibromyalgia syndrome: an experimental case–control study
title_full_unstemmed Altered recognition of fearful and angry facial expressions in women with fibromyalgia syndrome: an experimental case–control study
title_short Altered recognition of fearful and angry facial expressions in women with fibromyalgia syndrome: an experimental case–control study
title_sort altered recognition of fearful and angry facial expressions in women with fibromyalgia syndrome: an experimental case–control study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9747799/
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