Dissociating emotional and cognitive empathy in pre-clinical and clinical Huntington’s disease
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| Název: | Dissociating emotional and cognitive empathy in pre-clinical and clinical Huntington’s disease |
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| Autoři: | Lamia Guettat, Christine Verellen-Dumoulin, Alexandre Heeren, Delphine Grynberg, Stéphane Halkin, Eric Constant, Joël Billieux, Anne Jeanjean, Magali Lahaye, Pierre Maurage |
| Přispěvatelé: | Belgian Fund for Scientific Research, European Huntington’s Disease Network, UCL - SSH/IPSY - Psychological Sciences Research Institute, UCL - SSS/IONS/NEUR - Clinical Neuroscience, UCL - (SLuc) Service de psychiatrie adulte, UCL - (SLuc) Service de neurologie, UCL - SSS/IRSS - Institut de recherche santé et société, Université de Lille, LillOA |
| Zdroj: | Psychiatry Research, Vol. 237, p. 103-108 (2016) |
| Informace o vydavateli: | Elsevier BV, 2016. |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Témata: | Adult, Male, Huntington, Emotions, Huntington Disease/complications, Neurodegenerative disease, Sciences de la santé humaine, Huntington Disease/psychology, 03 medical and health sciences, Cognition, 0302 clinical medicine, Humans, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, Social skills, Human health sciences, Cognition/physiology, Biological Psychiatry, Psychiatry, Cognition Disorders/psychology, 05 social sciences, [SCCO] Cognitive science, Middle Aged, Social cognition, 3. Good health, Huntington Disease, Cognition Disorders/complications, Psychiatry and Mental Health, 13. Climate action, Emotions/physiology, Female, Empathy, Cognition Disorders, Empathy/physiology, Psychiatrie |
| Popis: | Huntington's disease (HD) is centrally characterized by motor, neurocognitive and psychiatric symptoms, but impaired emotional decoding abilities have also been reported. However, more complex affective abilities are still to be explored, and particularly empathy, which is essential for social relations and is impaired in various psychiatric conditions. This study evaluates empathic abilities and social skills in pre-clinical and clinical HD, and explores the distinction between two empathy sub-components (emotional-cognitive). Thirty-six HD patients (17 pre-clinical) and 36 matched controls filled in the Empathy Quotient Scale, while controlling for psychopathological comorbidities. At the clinical stage of HD, no global empathy impairment was observed but rather a specific deficit for the cognitive sub-component, while emotional empathy was preserved. A deficit was also observed for social skills. Pre-clinical HD was not associated with any empathy deficit. Emotional deficits in clinical HD are thus not limited to basic emotion decoding but extend towards complex interpersonal abilities. The dissociation between impaired cognitive and preserved emotional empathy in clinical HD reinforces the proposal that empathy subtypes are sustained by distinct processes. Finally, these results underline the extent of distinct affective and social impairments in HD and the need to grasp them in clinical contexts. |
| Druh dokumentu: | Article |
| Jazyk: | English |
| ISSN: | 0165-1781 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.psychres.2016.01.070 |
| Přístupová URL adresa: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26869362 http://www.uclep.be/wp-content/uploads/pdf/Pub/Maurage_PsR_2016.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26869362 https://core.ac.uk/display/34084235 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165178116301597 https://dial.uclouvain.be/pr/boreal/object/boreal:172837 http://europepmc.org/abstract/MED/26869362 https://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/172837 https://hal.univ-lille.fr/hal-02439822v1 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2016.01.070 |
| Rights: | Elsevier TDM |
| Přístupové číslo: | edsair.doi.dedup.....c50994e40c6e7ad2be78a693cebfba25 |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstrakt: | Huntington's disease (HD) is centrally characterized by motor, neurocognitive and psychiatric symptoms, but impaired emotional decoding abilities have also been reported. However, more complex affective abilities are still to be explored, and particularly empathy, which is essential for social relations and is impaired in various psychiatric conditions. This study evaluates empathic abilities and social skills in pre-clinical and clinical HD, and explores the distinction between two empathy sub-components (emotional-cognitive). Thirty-six HD patients (17 pre-clinical) and 36 matched controls filled in the Empathy Quotient Scale, while controlling for psychopathological comorbidities. At the clinical stage of HD, no global empathy impairment was observed but rather a specific deficit for the cognitive sub-component, while emotional empathy was preserved. A deficit was also observed for social skills. Pre-clinical HD was not associated with any empathy deficit. Emotional deficits in clinical HD are thus not limited to basic emotion decoding but extend towards complex interpersonal abilities. The dissociation between impaired cognitive and preserved emotional empathy in clinical HD reinforces the proposal that empathy subtypes are sustained by distinct processes. Finally, these results underline the extent of distinct affective and social impairments in HD and the need to grasp them in clinical contexts. |
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| ISSN: | 01651781 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.psychres.2016.01.070 |