Multicentric evidence of emotional impairments in hypertensive heart disease.

ABSTRACT: The mechanisms underlying emotional alterations constitute a key research target in neuroscience. Emerging evidence indicates that these disruptions can be related to abnormal interoception (i.e., the sensing of visceral feelings), as observed in patients with cardiodynamic deficits. To directly assess these links, we performed the first multicenter study on emotion recognition and interoception in patients with hypertensive heart disease (HHD). Participants from two countries completed a facial emotion recognition test, and a subsample additionally underwent an interoception protocol based on a validated heartbeat detection task. HHD patients from both countries presented deficits in the recognition of overall and negative emotions. Moreover, interoceptive performance was impaired in the

SUBMITTER: Yoris A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7445248 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature