期刊名称：Revue de Neuropsychologie Neurosciences Cognitives et Cliniques
印刷版ISSN：2101-6739
电子版ISSN：2102-6025
出版年度：2011
卷号：3
期号：3
页码：161-175
DOI：10.1684/nrp.2011.0187
出版社：John Libbey Eurotext
摘要：Figures See all figures Authors Virginie Goutte , Anne-Marie Ergis Laboratoire de psychologie et neuropsychologie cognitives FRE 3292 CNRS/UPD, Université Paris-Descartes, Institut de Psychologie, 71 avenue Edouard-Vaillant, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt Key words: degenerative pathology, emotion, facial expression, emotional prosody DOI : 10.1684/nrp.2011.0187 Page(s) : 161-75 Published in: 2011 Cognitive and emotional disorders are associated with degenerative disorders. Such deficits have important repercussions in patients’ and caregivers’ daily life. Several studies have focused on emotional processing in these pathologies. Patients have difficulties to recognize and identify emotions and they also show impaired performance in tasks of emotional discrimination or emotional matching, whatever which sensory modality is used (visual or auditory). However, these deficits are not homogeneous in all dementias, and they could affect one or more emotions. The degree of emotional impairment may also vary from one pathology to another. These deficits in emotional processing are in the relationship with the impairment of brain regions observed in the neurodegenerative diseases involving amygdala, orbitofrontal cortex and basal ganglia. In normal aging, several studies showed the presence of subtle difficulties for emotional processing. Elderly subjects showed alterations to identify some negative emotions (sadness, anger and fear) and these perturbations could explain by the neuroanatomical changes in regions associated with negative emotions. However, there would be little impact of these difficulties in elderly subjects’ daily life. In this article, we present a review of the literature of behavioral studies conducted on emotional processing in Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease and progressive supranuclear palsy. We also present the main cognitive models, and discuss the neural networks involved in emotional processing.
