title: [Identification of emotions in patients with low-grade gliomas versus cerebrovascular accidents].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Facial and vocal emotions contribute to sustain efficient social relationships. Brain disease may impair their identification. In the case of slow-growth tumors (Low Grade Gliomas [LGG]) or sudden stroke (cerebrovascular accidents [CVA]), the lesions induce contrasted plasticity and reorganisation processes.
  
  
  METHODS
  We compared the facial, vocal and intermodal identification of six emotions (happiness, fear, angriness, sadness, disgust and neutral) of three groups: patients with LGG before and after tumor resection, patients with CVA and control subjects.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In LGG patients, the results revealed less efficient performances after tumor resection and in CVA patients weak performances regarding negative emotions. The intermodal condition (simultaneous visual and vocal association) improved performances in all groups and enabled equivalent performance in CVA subjects compared with control subjects.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The intergroup differences may be related to variable brain plasticity as a function of type and rapidity of brain injury. Intermodal processing appears to be a compensatory condition.
authors.affiliation: CNRS UMR 7222, groupe intégration multimodale, interaction et signal social, 4, place Jussieu, 75252 Paris cedex, France. vivane.du.boullay@gmail.com
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: du Boullay
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Plaza
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Capelle
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chaby
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000523:psychology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005910:Glioma / Q000473:pathology / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D060787:Neoplasm Grading; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D012107:Research Design; D020521:Stroke / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult