Expressive Prosody in Patients With Focal Anterior Temporal Neurodegeneration.
Amandine GeraudiePeter S PressmanJeremie ParienteCarly MillanskiEleanor R PalserBuddhika M RatnasiriGiovanni BattistellaMaria Luisa MandelliZachary A MillerBruce L MillerVirginia SturmKatherine P RankinMaria Luisa Gorno-TempiniMaxime MontembeaultPublished in: Neurology (2023)
Expressive prosody may be a useful clinical marker of sbvFTD. Reduced empathy is a core symptom in sbvFTD; the present results extend this to prosody, a core component of social interaction, at the intersection of speech and emotion. They also inform the long-standing debate on the lateralization of expressive prosody in the brain, highlighting the critical role of the right superior temporal lobe.