Disorders of Emotional Expression
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Neuropsychology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2023) | Viewed by 2554
Special Issue Editor
2. Department of Neurology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
Interests: neurology of affective prosody; facial expressions; emotions and memory
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Affective (emotional) prosody and facial expressions have been active areas of research that have attracted increasing attention from investigators in behavioral neurology, neuropsychiatry, neuropsychology, neurophysiology, computer science, neurolinguistics, and related disciplines. Emotional expressions are one of the most widely studied topics in neuroscience, from both clinical and non-clinical perspectives.
Disorders of emotional expression occur in a variety of neurological and neuropsychiatric conditions. Focal brain lesions may result in pathological regulation of affect (involuntary crying or laughing) or loss of affective prosody and/or loss of facial expressions. Flattening of affect may be observed in neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson disease and fronto-temporal dementia, and as part of the right hemisphere developmental syndrome. Flattening of affect is also a cardinal symptom of schizophrenia and alexithymia. Depressive affect and manic behaviors are characteristic of affective disorders.
This Special Issue invites expert manuscripts that focus on disorders of emotional expression involving facial expressions and affective prosody that are associated with focal brain damage, neurodegenerative disorders (Parkinson disease and dementing illnesses), neurodevelopmental disorders, manic-depressive states, schizophrenia, and alexithymia.
We look forward to receiving your contributions, both qualitative and quantitative, regarding the disorder of emotional expression. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses will also be considered for inclusion.
Prof. Dr. Elliott D. Ross
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- affective prosody
- facial expressions
- flattening of affect
- behavioral neurology
- neuropsychiatry
- neuropsychology
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