Beyond shallow feelings of complex affect: Non-motor correlates of subjective emotional experience in Parkinson's disease.

ABSTRACT: Affective disorders in Parkinson's disease (PD) concern several components of emotion. However, research on subjective feeling in PD is scarce and has produced overall varying results. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to evaluate the subjective emotional experience and its relationship with autonomic symptoms and other non-motor features in PD patients. We used a battery of film excerpts to elicit Amusement, Anger, Disgust, Fear, Sadness, Tenderness, and Neutral State, in 28 PD patients and 17 healthy controls. Self-report scores of emotion category, intensity, and valence were analyzed. In the PD group, we explored the association between emotional self-reported scores and clinical scales assessing autonomic dysregulation, depression, REM sleep behavior disorder, and cognitive impairmen

SUBMITTER: Carricarte Naranjo C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9955984 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature