Emotional Recognition in Patients With Mesial Temporal Epilepsy Associated With Enlarged Amygdala

Conclusion:In our cohort, patients with unilateral mesial TLE and ipsilateral AE, an amygdala could display either functional integration in emotion recognition or dysfunction as demonstrated by fMRI. Perception and recognition of emotions were impaired more in right-sided mTLE as compared to left-sided mTLE. Neuropsychological tests showed deficits in emotion recognition in patients as compared to healthy controls.

Source: Frontiers in Neurology - January 21, 2022 Category: Neurology Source Type: research