The role of the amygdala during emotional processing in Huntington's disease: From pre-manifest to late stage disease

Mason, Sarah, Zhang, Jiaxiang ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4758-0394, Begeti, Faye, Guzman, Natalie Valle, Lezar, Alpar, Rowe, James, Barker, Roger A. and Hampshire, Adam 2015. The role of the amygdala during emotional processing in Huntington's disease: From pre-manifest to late stage disease. Neuropsychologia 70 , pp. 80-89. 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.02.017

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Background Deficits in emotional processing can be detected in the pre-manifest stage of Huntington's disease and negative emotion recognition has been identified as a predictor of clinical diagnosis. The underlying neuropathological correlates of such deficits are typically established using correlative structural MRI studies. This approach does not take into consideration the impact of disruption to the complex interactions between multiple brain circuits on emotional processing. Therefore, exploration of the neural substrates of emotional processing in pre-manifest HD using fMRI connectivity analysis may be a useful way of evaluating the way brain regions interrelate in the period prior to diagnosis. Methods We investigated the impact of predicted time to disease onset on brain activation when participants were exposed to pictures of faces with angry and neutral expressions, in 20 pre-manifest HD gene carriers and 23 healthy controls. On the basis of the results of this initial study went on to look at amygdala dependent cognitive performance in 79 Huntington's disease patients from a cross-section of disease stages (pre-manifest to late disease) and 26 healthy controls, using a validated theory of mind task: “the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test” which has been previously been shown to be amygdala dependent. Results Psychophysiological interaction analysis identified reduced connectivity between the left amygdala and right fusiform facial area in pre-manifest HD gene carriers compared to controls when viewing angry compared to neutral faces. Change in PPI connectivity scores correlated with predicted time to disease onset (r=0.45, p<0.05). Furthermore, performance on the “Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test” correlated

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Subjects:	R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0028-3932
Date of Acceptance:	13 February 2015
Last Modified:	28 Oct 2022 08:25
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/70692

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