INVESTIGADORES
D`ALESSIO Luciana
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Bimodal emotional recognition with auditory and visual stimuli in Argentinian patients with resistant temporal lobe epilepsy
Autor/es:
FERNÁNDEZ LIMA, M, SCÉVOLA, L, ODDO S, GIAGANTE B, KOCHEN S, D'ALESSIO L
Reunión:
Congreso; X Congreso Latinoamericano de Epilepsia; 2018
Resumen:
Bimodal emotional recognition with auditory and visual stimuli in Argentinian patients with resistant temporal lobe epilepsyABSTRACTIntroduction: Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most common form of epilepsy. The hippocampus-amygdala complex, along with others structures of the limbic system, plays a central role in emotional recognition (ER) and this function plays an essential role in social cognition and behavior. The aim of this study was to determine the performance in ER in patients with drug-resistant TLE (RTLE) using visual and auditory stimuli.Materials and methods: Patients with RTLE were diagnosed according to the following protocol: neurological, neuropsychological, and psychiatric evaluations; EEG, VEEG and MRI studies. Healthy controls were matched according to age and gender. The ER was determined using visual stimuli from the Set "Pictures of facial affect? (POFA) - (Ekman and Friesen, 1976) and auditory stimuli from the Set "Montreal Affective Voices" (Belin, Fillon-Bilodeau and Gosselin, 2008). In both cases, the emotional categories of the stimuli sets were seven: Happiness, Anger, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, Surprise and Neutral. Statistical analysis performed: normality test, Student's test and Mann-Whitney test were applied for the statistical analysis.Results: We included 63 subjects: 39 patients with RTLE (19 women, 20 men; mean age: 34.54 +/- 11.208 years) and 24 healthy controls (12 women, 12 men; mean age: 37.46 +/- 12.728 years). RTLE patient presented a significantly worst performance than controls in all the emotional categories except in disgust regarding the visual task and also in happiness when the auditory task was performed. Comparing general performance between the visual and the auditory tasks, a moderate positive correlation was found in the RTLE group (Spearman´s ρ = 0.580; P = 0.001) but no correlation was found in the control group (Spearman´s ρ = 0.005; P = 0.981). Conclusions: Patients with RTLE presented a marked alteration in bimodal ER tasks. These findings may partially explain the behavioral and social functioning difficulties cognition alterations observed in these patients.