Emotion recognition and experience in Huntington disease: a voxel-based morphometry study

R Ille, A Schäfer, W Scharmüller, C Enzinger… - Journal of Psychiatry and …, 2011 - jpn.ca
Background: The neuroanatomic basis of affective processing deficits in Huntington disease
is insufficiently understood. We investigated whether Huntington disease–related deficits in
emotion recognition and experience are associated with specific changes in grey matter
volume. Method: We assessed grey matter volume in symptomatic patients with Huntington
disease and healthy controls using voxel-based morphometry, and we correlated regional
grey matter volume with participants' affective ratings. Results: We enrolled 18 patients with …