TY  - JOUR
AU  - Kuttenreich, Anna-Maria
AU  - Volk, Gerd Fabian
AU  - Guntinas-Lichius, Orlando
AU  - von Piekartz, Harry
AU  - Heim, Stefan
TI  - Facial Emotion Recognition in Patients with Post-Paralytic Facial Synkinesis—A Present Competence
JO  - Diagnostics
VL  - 12
IS  - 5
SN  - 2075-4418
CY  - Basel
PB  - MDPI
M1  - FZJ-2022-02860
SP  - 1138 -
PY  - 2022
AB  - Facial palsy is a movement disorder with impacts on verbal and nonverbal communication. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of post-paralytic facial synkinesis on facial emotion recognition. In a prospective cross-sectional study, we compared facial emotion recognition between n = 30 patients with post-paralytic facial synkinesis (mean disease time: 1581 ± 1237 days) and n = 30 healthy controls matched in sex, age, and education level. Facial emotion recognition was measured by the Myfacetraining Program. As an intra-individual control condition, auditory emotion recognition was assessed via Montreal Affective Voices. Moreover, self-assessed emotion recognition was studied with questionnaires. In facial as well as auditory emotion recognition, on average, there was no significant difference between patients and healthy controls. The outcomes of the measurements as well as the self-reports were comparable between patients and healthy controls. In contrast to previous studies in patients with peripheral and central facial palsy, these results indicate unimpaired ability for facial emotion recognition. Only in single patients with pronounced facial asymmetry and severe facial synkinesis was an impaired facial and auditory emotion recognition detected. Further studies should compare emotion recognition in patients with pronounced facial asymmetry in acute and chronic peripheral paralysis and central and peripheral facial palsy
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - 35626294
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000801466600001
DO  - DOI:10.3390/diagnostics12051138
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/908824
ER  -