caa a22 4500 445807989 CHVBK 20180317145202.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00415-011-6002-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00415-011-6002-4 Alexithymia and impaired facial affect recognition in multiple sclerosis [Elektronische Daten] [D. Prochnow, J. Donell, R. Schäfer, S. Jörgens, H. Hartung, M. Franz, R. Seitz] Despite the high relevance of emotion processing for social functioning, the study of the impairment of facial affect in multiple sclerosis (MS) has received little attention. Previous research reported evidence for emotion processing deficits but the nature and extent are not fully explained. Thirty-five MS patients underwent dedicated neuropsychological assessment of emotion processing using two facial affect recognition tasks and self-report measures of alexithymia. For comparison, healthy participants served as controls. Relative to healthy controls, MS patients were impaired in facial affect recognition on four of the six Ekman basic emotions, except happiness and disgust. The MS patients were more alexithymic than the healthy controls. These data provide evidence for deficits in the recognition of emotional face expressions and emotional introspection. Springer-Verlag, 2011 Facial affect recognition nationallicence Alexithymia nationallicence Multiple sclerosis nationallicence Emotion processing nationallicence Prochnow D. Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, University of Düsseldorf, Moorenstrasse 5, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany aut Donell J. Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, University of Düsseldorf, Moorenstrasse 5, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany aut Schäfer R. Medical Faculty, Clinical Institute for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University of Düsseldorf, Moorenstrasse 5, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany aut Jörgens S. Department of Psychiatry, Wilhelm's University Münster, Albert-Schweitzer-Straße 11, 48149, Münster, Germany aut Hartung H. Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, University of Düsseldorf, Moorenstrasse 5, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany aut Franz M. Medical Faculty, Clinical Institute for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University of Düsseldorf, Moorenstrasse 5, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany aut Seitz R. Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, University of Düsseldorf, Moorenstrasse 5, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany aut Journal of Neurology Springer-Verlag 258/9(2011-09-01), 1683-1688 0340-5354 258:9<1683 2011 258 415 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-011-6002-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-011-6002-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Prochnow D. Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, University of Düsseldorf, Moorenstrasse 5, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Donell J. Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, University of Düsseldorf, Moorenstrasse 5, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Schäfer R. Medical Faculty, Clinical Institute for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University of Düsseldorf, Moorenstrasse 5, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jörgens S. Department of Psychiatry, Wilhelm's University Münster, Albert-Schweitzer-Straße 11, 48149, Münster, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hartung H. Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, University of Düsseldorf, Moorenstrasse 5, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Franz M. Medical Faculty, Clinical Institute for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University of Düsseldorf, Moorenstrasse 5, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Seitz R. Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, University of Düsseldorf, Moorenstrasse 5, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Neurology Springer-Verlag 258/9(2011-09-01), 1683-1688 0340-5354 258:9<1683 2011 258 415 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer