TITLE:
Emotion Evaluation of Four Generations of Woman from a 104-Year Old Ancestress
AUTHORS:
Gilles Sicard, Guy Escoffier, Elodie Salebert, Abdessadek El Ahmadi, Sadelli Kevin, François S. Roman
KEYWORDS:
Emotion, Very Old Aging, Facial Analyses, 104-Year Old Case Report
JOURNAL NAME:
World Journal of Neuroscience,
Vol.8 No.3,
August
1,
2018
ABSTRACT: Normal aging is associated with declines of perception and cognition. Inversely, emotions seem to be preserved
compared to younger adults. Viewing, neutral, dramatic and comic films,
emotions were evaluated in four generations of woman from a 104-year old
ancestress. At the very old age, from this case report, emotions were differently
expressed while arousal was still preserved. A constant emotion of scare was
expressed during the viewing of these three films (p 0.001)
with significant higher level of disgust (p ≤ 0.01).
Only perceptual deficiency cannot explain this difference as cognitive tasks
revealed a mild cognitive impairment detected by the Mini Mental State Examination
and a substantial impairment on the executive functions by using the Delayed
response tasks. These results emphasize that some emotions in a normal aging
centenarian are still present, even if not appropriates, and different in
comparison to a young adult control group. From this study, it is expected that
emotion analysis in old adults viewing selected short films will predict
longevity and could discriminate normal processes occurring during normal aging
from neurodegenerative diseases.