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Victoria Sidoroff¹, Federico Carbone¹, Philipp Ellmerer¹

¹Department of Neurology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.

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|September 25, 2023

Summary

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Multiple system atrophy (MSA) patients show impaired anger recognition and avoid eye contact, evidenced by fewer and delayed fixations on the eyes. This suggests unique gaze behaviors in MSA, differing from Parkinson's disease.

Keywords:

Emotion processing Eye tracking Multiple system atrophy

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Area of Science:

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Psychiatry

Background:

Emotional processing is crucial for social interaction.
Studies on emotional processing in Parkinson's disease (PD) exist but yield contradictory results.
Atypical parkinsonism, like multiple system atrophy (MSA), has been largely excluded from such research.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate emotion processing in patients with multiple system atrophy (MSA).
To utilize eye-tracking data to gain insights into gaze behavior during emotion recognition tasks in MSA.
To compare emotion processing and gaze patterns between MSA patients, PD patients, and healthy controls.

Main Methods:

Included 21 MSA patients, 15 PD patients, and 19 matched controls.
Participants completed static and dynamic emotion recognition tasks.
Gaze fixations were analyzed, alongside neuropsychological testing and assessments for depression and alexithymia.

Main Results:

MSA patients exhibited lower accuracy in recognizing anger compared to controls.
MSA patients showed fewer overall fixations and reduced/delayed fixations on the eye region in static tasks.
MSA patients displayed longer fixation durations and higher alexithymia scores than controls.

Conclusions:

MSA patients demonstrate impaired anger recognition.
Reduced and delayed eye fixations suggest avoidance of eye contact in MSA patients.
These findings indicate distinct gaze behaviors in MSA, potentially linked to alexithymia.