title: Emotional Decoding Abilities Do Not Influence Neuropsychiatric Disturbances in Patients With Frontotemporal Dementia.
abstract: The ability to accurately recognize emotional information belongs to very important interpersonal communication skills in humans. Disturbance of emotional processing is present in behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), and the severity of pathological behavior may be linked to misunderstanding of other people's emotions. In our study, we examined hypothesis that patients with worse ability to decode emotions have more behavioral and psychopathological disturbances--the most challenging manifestations of dementia--than those who decode emotions better. We were not able to prove this hypothesis. The ability to decode emotions in patients with bvFTD did not influenced their behavior.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Medical College, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland aleksandra.klimkowicz@mp.pl.
authors.forename: Aleksandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Klimkowicz-Mrowiec
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Pedagogical University, Krakow, Poland.
authors.forename: Lukasz
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Krzywoszanski
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Krakow, Poland.
authors.forename: Aleksandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Szyper-Maciejewska
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Medical College, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
authors.forename: Tomasz
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Dziedzic
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Medical College, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
authors.forename: Joanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pera
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Medical College, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
authors.forename: Agnieszka
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Slowik
mesh_terms: D001526:Behavioral Symptoms; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D057180:Frontotemporal Dementia / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological
keywords: NPI; emotions decoding abilities; frontotemporal dementia