Social cognition in cervical dystonia: A case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although considered a motor disorder, adult onset isolated focal dystonia has many non-motor symptoms. There is a paucity of neuropsychological research on cognitive processing in adult onset focal dystonia.

Methods

We employed a battery of clinical and cognitive assessments, including basic and complex social cognition, and assessed 46 patients with adult-onset cervical dystonia, compared to 46 age-, sex-, education-, and premorbid IQ-matched healthy controls.

Results

Significant between-group differences were observed in relation to measures of memory encoding, recall and recognition, as well as multimodal measures of basic Social Cognition (emotion recognition: face and prosody), but not complex Social Cognition (mentalising). There were no deficits obse

SUBMITTER: Burke T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8298799 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature