[Peculiarities of emotional-cognitive assessment of sensations by patients with neurological diseases].
To study peculiarities of emotional-cognitive assessment of color sensations and sensation descriptors in patients with autonomic dystonia and cerebrovascular diseases, 70 healthy subjects and 113 patients including 27 with autonomic dystonia, 48 - with discirculatory encephalopathy and 38 - with ischemic stroke have been studied in the rehabilitation period. Clinical-neurological examination, assessment of headache intensity on the Visual-Analogous scale, anxiety and depression levels on the Hospital anxiety and depression scale, the level of mental maladaptation on an author's scale as well as a study of emotional-cognitive assessment of color sensations and sensation descriptors have been carried out. Assessments of color sensations were studied using 20 color standards, indices of positive and negative assessment of all groups of colors and colors of certain categories were determined. The relation to sensation descriptors was studied by showing a list of 50 words; indices of positive and negative ratings of different categories of descriptors (% to the total number of words listed) were determined. It has been shown that the system of assessment of color sensations is most substantially changed in patients with autonomic dystonia that appeared in the more negative, compared to healthy people, perception of cold color tones, dark tones and chromatically non-saturated colors. These changes were less represented in patients with cerebrovascular diseases and disappear after stroke. Changes in the system of sensation descriptors rating are evenly expressed in patients with autonomic dystonia and cerebrovascular diseases: patients' ratings of sensation descriptors are more negative compared to healthy people. These changes are related to the increase of anxiety and depression levels and may contribute to mental health problems of patients.
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D000328:Adult; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D003118:Color Perception / Q000502:physiology; D018450:Disease Progression; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods*; D012677:Sensation / Q000502:physiology*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D055815:Young Adult