Empathic Accuracy Deficits in Patients with Neurodegenerative Disease: Association with Caregiver Depression.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:To investigate whether deficits in empathic accuracy (i.e., ability to recognize emotion in others) in patients with neurodegenerative disease are associated with greater depression in their caregivers. DESIGN:Two cross-sectional studies. SETTING:Academic medical center and research university. PARTICIPANTS:Two independent samples (N = 172, N = 63) of patients with a variety of neurodegenerative diseases and their caregivers; comparison group of healthy couples. MEASUREMENT:Patients' empathic accuracy was assessed in the laboratory using a novel dynamic tracking task (rating another person's changing emotions over time) and more traditional measures (recognizing the emotion expressed in photographs of facial expressions and by characters in films). Caregivers completed self-repo

SUBMITTER: Brown CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5860967 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature