Impaired recognition and experience of disgust following brain injury

ANDREW CALDER; JILL KEANE; FACUNDO MANES; NAGUI ANTOUN; ANDREW YOUNG

NATURE NEUROSCIENCE.

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP

Lugar: Nueva York; Año: 2000 vol. 3 p. 1077 - 1078

1097-6256

Huntington´s disease can particularly affect people´s recognition of disgust from facial expressions, and functional neuroimaging research has demonstrated that facial expressions of disgust consistently engage different brain areas (insula and putamen) than other facial expressions. However, it is not known whether these particular brain areas process only facial signals of disgust or disgust signals from multiple modalities. Here we describe evidence, from a patient with insula and putamen damage, for a neural system for recognizing social signals of disgust from multiple modalities.