Facial emotion processing in patients with seizure disorders.

This study provides preliminary evidence that patients with PNES exhibit altered facial emotion processing compared with patients with TLE and HCs and increased amygdala functional connectivity compared with TLE. These findings identify potential key differences in facial emotion processing reflective of neurophysiologic markers of neural circuitry alterations that can be used to generate further hypotheses for developing studies that examine the contributions of emotion processing to the development and maintenance of PNES.
PMID: 29309953 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour - January 5, 2018 Category: Neurology Authors: Szaflarski JP, Allendorfer JB, Nenert R, LaFrance WC, Barkan HI, DeWolfe J, Pati S, Thomas AE, Ver Hoef L Tags: Epilepsy Behav Source Type: research