Dissociating emotional and cognitive empathy in pre-clinical and clinical Huntington's disease

Maurage, Pierre; Lahaye, Magali; Grynberg, Delphine; Jeanjean, Anne; Guettat, Lamia; Verellen-Dumoulin, Christine; Halkin, Stéphane; Heeren, Alexandre; Billieux, Joël; Constant, Eric

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2016.01.070

Dissociating emotional and cognitive empathy in pre-clinical and clinical Huntington's disease

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serval:BIB_824D28EA17B4

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Title

Dissociating emotional and cognitive empathy in pre-clinical and clinical Huntington's disease

Journal

Psychiatry Research

Author(s)

Maurage Pierre, Lahaye Magali, Grynberg Delphine, Jeanjean Anne, Guettat Lamia, Verellen-Dumoulin Christine, Halkin Stéphane, Heeren Alexandre, Billieux Joël, Constant Eric

ISSN

0165-1781

Publication state

Published

Issued date

2016

Peer-reviewed

Oui

Volume

237

Pages

103-108

Language

english

Abstract

Huntington’s disease(HD)iscentrallycharacterizedbymotor,neurocognitiveandpsychiatricsymptoms,
but impairedemotionaldecodingabilitieshavealsobeenreported.However,morecomplexaffective
abilities arestilltobeexplored,andparticularlyempathy,whichisessentialforsocialrelationsandis
impaired invariouspsychiatricconditions.Thisstudyevaluatesempathicabilitiesandsocialskillsinpre-
clinical andclinicalHD,andexploresthedistinctionbetweentwoempathysub-components(emotional-
cognitive).Thirty-sixHDpatients(17pre-clinical)and36matchedcontrols filled intheEmpathyQuo-
tient Scale,whilecontrollingforpsychopathologicalcomorbidities.AttheclinicalstageofHD,noglobal
empathyimpairmentwasobservedbutratheraspecific deficit forthecognitivesub-component,while
emotional empathywaspreserved.Adeficit wasalsoobservedforsocialskills.Pre-clinicalHDwasnot
associated withanyempathydeficit. Emotionaldeficits inclinicalHDarethusnotlimitedtobasic
emotion decodingbutextendtowardscomplexinterpersonalabilities.Thedissociationbetweenim-
paired cognitiveandpreservedemotionalempathyinclinicalHDreinforcestheproposalthatempathy
subtypes aresustainedbydistinctprocesses.Finally,theseresultsunderlinetheextentofdistinctaf-
fectiveandsocialimpairmentsinHDandtheneedtograsptheminclinicalcontexts.

Keywords

Huntington, Empathy

DOI

10.1016/j.psychres.2016.01.070

Pubmed

26869362

Web of science

000371939300017

Publisher's website

http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/26869362

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