Is "reading mind in the eyes" impaired in Parkinson's disease?
Is "reading mind in the eyes" impaired in Parkinson's disease?
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DOI：
10.1016/j.parkreldis.2010.09.001
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发表时间：
2011-05
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
Natsuko Tsuruya;M. Kobayakawa;M. Kawamura
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作者：
Natsuko Tsuruya;M. Kobayakawa;M. Kawamura
心理理论是理解他人心理状态的特定认知能力。几项研究使用“眼内阅读思维”测试（RMET）检查了帕金森病（PD）患者的心理理论能力。然而，一直没有协议，是否在这个任务中的心理理论能力受到PD。为了获得确凿的证据，关于心理理论能力在PD，我们研究了RMET相关的性能在非痴呆PD患者，我们还使用了语义歧视任务，以排除可能性，PD患者难以区分情感形容词。结果表明，在RMET的心理理论能力受损的PD患者，这一发现是不归因于面部的视觉处理或情感形容词的口头理解。因此，心理理论的情感方面可以在PD患者中受损。
Theory of mind (ToM) is the specific cognitive ability to understand other people’s mental states. Several studies have examined ToM ability in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD), using the “reading mind in the eyes” test (RMET). However, there has been no agreement as to whether or not ToM ability in this task is affected by PD. In order to obtain conclusive evidence regarding ToM ability in PD, we examined RMET-related performance in nondemented PD patients; we also used the semantic discrimination task to exclude the possibility that PD patients had difficulty in distinguishing emotional adjectives. Results indicated that ToM ability in the RMET is impaired in PD patients, and that this finding was not attributable to the visual processing of faces or the verbal comprehension of emotional adjectives. Thus, the affective aspects of ToM can be impaired in PD patients.