An exploratory study on facial emotion recognition capacity in beginning Alzheimer's disease

European Neurology

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 361-367

  Wiechetek Ostos, Marzanna ^a,d   Schenk, Françoise ^a,b   Baenziger, Tania ^c   Von Gunten, Armin ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Facial emotion recognition; Mild cognitive impairment; Subjective facial emotion recognition

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 79957575198     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: 14219913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000327979     Document Type: Article

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