Theory of mind and recognition of facial emotion in dementia: Challenge to current concepts

Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 56-61

  Freedman, Morris ^a,b,c   Binns, Malcolm A ^b,d   Black, Sandra E ^b,c,d,e   Murphy, Cara ^b   Stuss, Donald T ^b,c,f  

^a Mt Sinai Hospital   (United States)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c Department of Medicine ^*  (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^f Ontario Brain Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alzheimer disease; facial emotion; frontotemporal dementia; social cognition; theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE STATE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL VARIANT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL COGNITION; THEORY OF MIND; VIDEORECORDING; VIGNETTE; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST;

DEMENTIA; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); THEORY OF MIND;

EID: 84874244503     PISSN: 08930341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WAD.0b013e31824ea5db     Document Type: Article

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