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17360152

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-6-1
pubmed:abstractText
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is characterized by dramatic changes of personality and behaviour. Impaired ability of emotional processing could contribute to these symptoms, as it may lead to misinterpretation of emotional cues that would normally guide behaviour. The aim of the present study was to investigate if the Ekman 60 Faces Test, an instrument to test the recognition of basic facial emotions, enables the differentiation between patients with mild FTD and cognitively healthy subjects (HC). We found that compared to 33 cognitively healthy subjects, 25 patients with mild FTD were impaired in the recognition of basic emotions. At a cut-off score from 46 out of 60 points, the Ekman 60 Faces Test discriminated between patients with mild FTD and HC with 97% diagnostic accuracy (sensitivity: 94%; specificity: 100%). The results of the present study were consistent with the findings of prior studies on smaller patient samples.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0887-6177
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
22
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
459-64
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
The Ekman 60 Faces Test as a diagnostic instrument in frontotemporal dementia.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Moehlstrasse 26, D-81675 Munich, Germany. janine.diehl@lrz.tum.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Randomized Controlled Trial, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't