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✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Lewy body dementia

Topic: Amyloid, tau and blood-test diagnosis

FTD patients performed significantly worse than HCs in most of the subtests of the basic emotion recognition batteries, where, instead, AD patients were significantly impaired only when required to match emotional facial expression in different individuals (subtask of the FERB). Moreover, FTD patients scored significantly lower in RME and RMV tests compared both to AD patients and to HCs. In addition, ADs were selectively impaired in RMV as respect to HCs. FTD patients showed deficits in emotion recognition, affecting both basic and social emotions, whether conveyed through facial expressions or prosody. This result may explain the well-known social behavioral difficulties observed in FTD patients from the early stages of the disease. The fewer and specific deficits in AD patients with comparable MMSE scores may be attributed to the mild degree of impairment, as these deficits may appear later in the progression of AD.

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APA 7th

Sola, C., Zanelli, V., Molinari, M. A., Casadio, C., Ricci, F., Carpentiero, O., et al. (2025). Understanding basic and social emotions in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1535722

Vancouver

Sola C, Zanelli V, Molinari MA, Casadio C, Ricci F, Carpentiero O, et al. Understanding basic and social emotions in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia. Frontiers in Psychology. 2025. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1535722. PMID: 39989634.

BibTeX

@article{sola2025-39989634,
  author  = {Sola, Carlotta and Zanelli, Vanessa and Molinari, Maria Angela and Casadio, Claudia and Ricci, Francesco and Carpentiero, Omar and Tondelli, Manuela and Lui, Fausta and others},
  title   = {{Understanding basic and social emotions in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia}},
  journal = {Frontiers in Psychology},
  year    = {2025},
  doi     = {10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1535722},
  pmid    = {39989634},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1535722}
}

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Key findings

FTD patients performed significantly worse than HCs in most of the subtests of the basic emotion recognition batteries, where, instead, AD patients were significantly impaired only when required to match emotional facial expression in different individuals (subtask of the FERB).
Moreover, FTD patients scored significantly lower in RME and RMV tests compared both to AD patients and to HCs.
In addition, ADs were selectively impaired in RMV as respect to HCs.
FTD patients showed deficits in emotion recognition, affecting both basic and social emotions, whether conveyed through facial expressions or prosody.
This result may explain the well-known social behavioral difficulties observed in FTD patients from the early stages of the disease.

Why it matters

This study found that frontotemporal dementia patients showed deficits in emotion recognition affecting both basic and social emotions, while Alzheimer's disease patients had fewer and specific deficits. It does not test any treatment, so it does not show a cure or prevention.

Study details

Participants15
Evidence strengthLow

How this study scored 41/100

Published in a peer-reviewed journal. Scored zero for study design, effect reported and randomised / blinded because the record does not state it.

Component	Points	Why
Journal tier	7 / 10	Tier 3 — peer-reviewed journal (Frontiers in Psychology)
Journal's citation record	3 / 4	Frontiers in Psychology: journal h-index 313 (OpenAlex, 2026-10-29)
Study design	0 / 12	No study design recorded — scores zero, not guessed (not stated in the record — scored 0)
Strength of evidence	1 / 5	Rated “low” in our summary
Peer-review validation	10 / 10	Peer-reviewed. Published as an article in a named peer-reviewed journal.
How recent	4 / 5	2025 — within 3 year(s) of the newest study here
Sample size	1 / 4	15 participants
Effect reported	0 / 3	No effect size reported — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0)
Studied in people	3 / 3	Studied in people (participant count stated)
Randomised / blinded	0 / 2	No randomisation or blinding stated — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0)
Times cited	1 / 7	Cited 3 times (OpenAlex, 2026-10-10)
Citations per year	1 / 5	1.0 citations a year over 3 year(s) since 2025
Impact for its field and year	2 / 6	Cited 1.9× the average for papers of its field and year (OpenAlex FWCI)
Cited by studies here	0 / 6	No other study in this library cites it
Still being cited	1 / 4	Cited 3 times in 2024–2026 (2026 still in progress; OpenAlex)
Senior author's track record	2 / 4	Last-listed author Francesca Benuzzi: h-index 30 (OpenAlex, whole career)
Institution's track record	0 / 3	University of Modena and Reggio Emilia: institution h-index 547 (OpenAlex)
Multi-centre collaboration	1 / 3	OpenAlex lists 3 institution(s) in 1 country
Indexed in PubMed	2 / 2	Indexed in PubMed (PMID 39989634)
Free to read	2 / 2	Free to read
Total	41 / 100	—

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