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2024
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Behavioral and neuroanatomical correlates of facial emotion processing in post-stroke depression
Behavioral and neuroanatomical correlates of facial emotion processing in post-stroke depression
AbstractBackground: Emotion processing deficits are known to accompany depressive symptoms and are often seen in stroke patients. Little is known about the influence of post-stroke depressive (PSD) symptoms and specific brain lesions on altered emotion processing abilities and how these phenomena de...
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Personal Name(s): | Koob, Janusz L (First author) |
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Gorski, Maximilian / Krick, Sebastian / Mustin, Maike / Fink, Gereon R. / Grefkes, Christian (Corresponding author) / Rehme, Anne K. | |
Contributing Institute: |
Kognitive Neurowissenschaften; INM-3 |
Published in: | NeuroImage: Clinical, 41 (2024) S. 103586 - |
Imprint: |
[Amsterdam u.a.]
Elsevier
2024
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DOI: |
10.34734/FZJ-2024-01821 |
DOI: |
10.1016/j.nicl.2024.103586 |
Document Type: |
Journal Article |
Research Program: |
Neurale Grundlagen der Interaktion von Post-stroke Depression und motorischer Rehabilitation nach Schlaganfall Multilevel Brain Organization and Variability |
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OpenAccess |
Publikationsportal JuSER |
Please use the identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2024.103586 in citations.
AbstractBackground: Emotion processing deficits are known to accompany depressive symptoms and are often seen in stroke patients. Little is known about the influence of post-stroke depressive (PSD) symptoms and specific brain lesions on altered emotion processing abilities and how these phenomena develop over time. This potential relationship may impact post-stroke rehabilitation of neurological and psychosocial function. To address this scientific gap, we investigated the relationship between PSD symptoms and emotion processing abilities in a longitudinal study design from the first days post-stroke into the early chronic phase.Methods: Twenty-six ischemic stroke patients performed an emotion processing task on videos with emotional faces ('happy,' 'sad,' 'anger,' 'fear,' and 'neutral') at different intensity levels (20%, 40%, 60%, 80%, 100%). Recognition accuracies and response times were measured, as well as scores of depressive symptoms (Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale). Twenty-eight healthy participants matched in age and sex were included as a control group. Whole-brain support-vector regression lesion-symptom mapping (SVR-LSM) analyses were performed to investigate whether specific lesion locations were associated with the recognition accuracy of specific emotion categories.Results: Stroke patients performed worse in overall recognition accuracy compared to controls, specifically in the recognition of happy, sad, and fearful faces. Notably, more depressed stroke patients showed an increased processing towards specific negative emotions, as they responded significantly faster to angry faces and recognized sad faces of low intensities significantly more accurately. These effects obtained for the first days after stroke partly persisted to follow-up assessment several months later. SVR-LSM analyses revealed that inferior and middle frontal regions (IFG/MFG) and insula and putamen were associated with emotion-recognition deficits in stroke. Specifically, recognizing happy facial expressions was influenced by lesions affecting the anterior insula, putamen, IFG, MFG, orbitofrontal cortex, and rolandic operculum. Lesions in the posterior insula, rolandic operculum, and MFG were also related to reduced recognition accuracy of fearful facial expressions, whereas recognition deficits of sad faces were associated with frontal pole, IFG, and MFG damage.Conclusion: PSD symptoms facilitate processing negative emotional stimuli, specifically angry and sad facial expressions. The recognition accuracy of different emotional categories was linked to brain lesions in emotion-related processing circuits, including insula, basal ganglia, IFG, and MFG. In summary, our study provides support for psychosocial and neural factors underlying emotional processing after stroke, contributing to the pathophysiology of PSD.Keywords: Dynamic faces; Emotion processing; Longitudinal; Multivariate SVR-LSM; PSD. |