The impact of deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus on facial emotion recognition in patients with Parkinson's disease

Annelien A Duits; Eva M de Ronde; R Saman Vinke; Sandra H Vos; Rianne A J Esselink; Roy P C Kessels

doi:10.1111/jnp.12336

The impact of deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus on facial emotion recognition in patients with Parkinson's disease

J Neuropsychol. 2024 Mar:18 Suppl 1:134-141. doi: 10.1111/jnp.12336. Epub 2023 Jun 24.

Authors

Annelien A Duits^{1

2}, Eva M de Ronde³, R Saman Vinke³, Sandra H Vos⁴, Rianne A J Esselink^{3

5}, Roy P C Kessels^{1

4

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical Psychology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
² Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
³ Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Department of Neurosurgery, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
⁴ Vincent van Gogh Institute for Psychiatry, Centre of Excellence for Korsakoff and Alcohol-related Cognitive Disorders, Venray, The Netherlands.
⁵ Department of Neurology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
⁶ Donders Institute for Brain. Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

PMID: 37353988
DOI: 10.1111/jnp.12336

Abstract

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) is successful in patients with advanced Parkinson's disease (PD) but may worsen cognitive outcome, including facial emotion recognition (FER). Data-analyses on 59 consecutive PD patients with complete pre- and postoperative assessments, using a sensitive FER test, showed no changes in FER 1 year after STN-DBS surgery, both after group and individual analyses. These findings do however not exclude the impact of FER in and on itself on the outcome after STN-DBS.

Keywords: Parkinson's disease; emotion perception; social cognition.

MeSH terms

Deep Brain Stimulation*
Facial Recognition*
Humans
Parkinson Disease* / psychology
Parkinson Disease* / therapy
Subthalamic Nucleus* / physiology