Review of emotion recognition in mild cognitive impairment

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 257-266

  McCade, Donna ^a,b   Savage, Greg ^b   Naismith, Sharon L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Emotion processing; Emotion recognition; Facial expressions; Mild cognitive impairment; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MEDLINE; MENTAL HEALTH; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCINFO; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84855401462     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: 14219824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000335009     Document Type: Review

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