Social cognition in cervical dystonia: phenotype and relationship to anxiety and depression

• DOI: 10.1111/ene.14508
• Publication Date: 2020-09-28T21:38:21Z
• Authors: B. Ellement; Y. Jasaui; K. Kathol; E. Nosratmirsheka...; T. Pringsheim; J. Sarna; B.L. Callahan; D. Martino
• Keywords: Social inhibition

Background and purpose Anxiety depression are common disabling comorbidities in cervical dystonia (CD) may predispose to social withdrawal cognitive impairments. The relationship between cognition depressive/anxiety symptoms CD is under‐investigated. Methods Forty‐six patients (40 women; mean age ± SD, 55.57 10.84 years) were administered the following battery: Affect Naming, Prosody Face Pair Matching subtests from Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale IV Memory (social perception), reality‐known reality‐unknown false belief reasoning tasks (theory of mind), Empathy Quotient Social Norms Questionnaire 22 behaviour), alongside Benton Facial Recognition Task (non‐emotional facial discrimination). Alongside severity, Hospital Depression measured comorbid diagnostic status Liebowitz assessed phobia. standardized using published normative data a cut‐off z < −1.5 for impairment. Results More than 90% our performed normally on perception behaviour tests. Performance impaired mind) was 10 46 (21.74%); five (10.87%) Quotient. Better performance Naming task associated with anxiety ( η 2 = 0.09, medium‐to‐large effect size) greater anxiety, phobia severity. Worse 0.11, had significantly more difficulties fearful face identification P 0.001). Conclusions Greater abilities severe suggest efficient modulation self‐adaptation skills.