Deficits of facial emotion recognition and visual information processing in adult patients with classical galactosemia.

Mirjam KornerSonja KälinAntoinette Zweifel-ZehnderNiklaus FankhauserJean-Marc NuofferMatthias Gautschi

Published in: Orphanet journal of rare diseases (2019)

CG patients have specific cognitive problems such as impaired visual information processing and facial emotion recognition. The deficits in facial emotion recognition have not been described before and could help explain difficulties in social interactions often experienced by patients with CG.

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