Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7317716 | Neuropsychologia | 2018 | 28 Pages |
Abstract
The results suggest that, in presymptomatic participants, emotion regulation and emotion recognition are generally not significantly impaired, and no significant relationships between performances on the two constructs were observed. However, a specific impairment in emotional awareness (a subscale on the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, DERS) was observed, which appears to be enhanced by the co-occurrence of depressive symptoms, even at a subclinical level. Consequently, it is suggested that difficulties in emotional awareness may represent a precursor of more general emotion recognition impairments, which only become apparent as the disease reaches a more symptomatic level. Clinical implications of the findings are discussed and directions for future research are proposed.
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Authors
Nicolò Zarotti, Jane Simpson, Ian Fletcher, Ferdinando Squitieri, Simone Migliore,