Cardiac responses to viewing facial emotion differentiate frontotemporal dementias.
Charles R MarshallChristopher J D HardyMicah AllenLucy L RussellCamilla N ClarkRebecca L BondKatrina M DickEmilie V BrotherhoodJonathan D RohrerJames M KilnerJason D WarrenPublished in: Annals of clinical and translational neurology (2018)
Autonomic indices of emotional reactivity dissociate from emotion categorization ability, stratifying frontotemporal dementia syndromes and showing promise as novel biomarkers. Attenuated cardiac responses to the emotions of others suggest a core pathophysiological mechanism for emotional blunting and degraded interpersonal reactivity in these diseases.