Degraded Impairment of Emotion Recognition in Parkinson’s Disease Extends from Negative to Positive Emotions

Table 2

Means (standard deviations) for demographic and clinical characteristics of PD patients and healthy controls in Experiment 1.

Group	Number	Age	BDI-II	MMSE	UPDRS-III	H&Y
PD	29	62.93 (12.78)	12.45 (9.29)	27.62 (1.86)	36.79 (17.29)	2.84 (0.78)
HMD	15	62.53 (13.28)	14.80 (10.17)	27.20 (1.74)	48.73 (14.58)	3.37 (0.69)
LMD	14	63.36 (12.71)	9.93 (7.83)	28.07 (1.94)	24.00 (8.62)	2.29 (0.38)
HC	29	59.07 (10.54)	3.14 (2.61)	28.07 (1.62)

HMD: PD patients with high motor dysfunction (≧35 on UPDRS-III); LMD: PD patients with low motor dysfunction (<35 on UPDRS-III); HC: healthy controls. BDI-II: Beck Depression Inventory II; MMSE: Mini Mental State Examination; UPDRS-III: motor section of the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale.