Journal of the Neurological Sciences
Volume 313, Issue 1 , Pages 13-16 , 15 February 2012

Visuo-spatial interference affects the identification of emotional facial expressions in unmedicated Parkinson's patients

  • Beatriz García-Rodríguez

      Affiliations

    • Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain
    • Neuroscience Group, Research Institute Hospital La Paz (IdiPaz), Spain
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Facultad de Psicología, UNED, Juan del Rosal 10, 28040 Madrid, Spain. Tel.: +34 91 3986280; fax: +34 91 3987958.
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  • Carmen Casares Guillén

      Affiliations

    • Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain
    • ,
  • Rosa Jurado Barba

      Affiliations

    • Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain
    • ,
  • Gabriel Rubio Valladolid

      Affiliations

    • Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain
    • ,
  • José Antonio Molina Arjona

      Affiliations

    • Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain
    • ,
  • Heiner Ellgring

      Affiliations

    • Julius Maximilians Universität, Würzburg, Germany

Received 1 March 2011 ,Revised 16 June 2011 ,Accepted 30 September 2011.

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☆ Originally submitted to the special issue "Proceedings of the 7th Congress of Mental and other Non-Motor Dysfunctions in Parkinson's Disease".

PII: S0022-510X(11)00603-4

doi: 10.1016/j.jns.2011.09.041

Journal of the Neurological Sciences
Volume 313, Issue 1 , Pages 13-16 , 15 February 2012

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