Parkinson’s Limits Ability to Read Emotional Changes in Faces, Small Study Finds

Changes in facial expression are limited by Parkinson’s disease, and people with PD also are less able than others to read emotions expressed through facial changes or shifts in eye gaze, a study suggests. Its researchers say this “impaired emotion recognition” may be related to problems patients have with social…

Middle-Onset Parkinson’s Linked to Impaired Ability to Detect Emotions, Study Finds

Patients with middle-onset Parkinson’s disease have difficulties recognizing negative and neutral emotions, deficits that appear to be even stronger in female patients, a study shows. The study, “Emotion-Specific Affective Theory of Mind Impairment in Parkinson’s Disease,” was published in the journal Scientific Reports. Parkinson’s disease…

People with Parkinson’s Disease Have Impaired Emotional Recognition and Expression

People with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) have impaired emotional recognition and expression compared to healthy people, a new study shows. The study, titled “Altered emotional recognition and expression in patients with Parkinson’s disease,” was published in the journal Neuropsychiatric Disease and…