Authors:

CALDER, A.J., KEANE, J., MANES, F., Antoun, N. & Young, A.W.

Reference:

Year of publication:

2000

CBU number:

4066

Abstract:

Studies have shown that Huntington’s disease can particularly affect peopleís recognition of disgust from facial expressions, and functional neuroimaging research has demonstrated that facial expressions of disgust engage different brain areas to other facial expressions: in each neuroimaging study, increased signals for disgust were observed in the insula and the putamen. It has not yet been established, however, whether these particular brain mechanisms are involved only in processing facial signals of disgust or disgust signals from multiple modalities. Here we describe a patient with damage to these brain areas who provides direct evidence of a neural system for recognising social signals of disgust from multiple modalities.