title: Empathy and emotion recognition in patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy.
abstract: Patients with epilepsy have deficits in social cognition. In this study, we examined the changes in empathy and eye emotion recognition using the Interpersonal Reactivity Index and eye emotion recognition tasks. Forty-two patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy and 47 healthy controls were involved. The eye emotion recognition and cognitive empathy abilities of the patients with IGE were impaired, but the affective empathy was intact. The cognitive empathy performance of the patients with IGE was positively correlated with their performance in sadness recognition, MoCA, verbal fluency, and the Stroop test. These results suggest that the empathy ability was impaired in patients with IGE, and this impairment may be caused by deficits in frontal lobe function.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei City, Anhui Province, PR China. Electronic address: jiangyubao1982@126.com.
authors.forename: Yubao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei City, Anhui Province, PR China. Electronic address: calottriangle@126.com.
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei City, Anhui Province, PR China. Electronic address: yw4d@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei City, Anhui Province, PR China. Electronic address: zhounong@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Nong
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei City, Anhui Province, PR China. Electronic address: zhuli5655@126.com.
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei City, Anhui Province, PR China. Electronic address: wangkai1964@126.com.
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003071:Cognition; D004645:Empathy; D004829:Epilepsy, Generalized / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D005123:Eye; D005260:Female; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012938:Social Perception; D057190:Stroop Test; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Empathy; Epilepsy; Eye emotion recognition; Social cognition