Research of emotional cognitive impairment in patients with leukoaraiosis

Objective: To explore the emotional cognitive impairment of patients with leukoaraiosis (LA) by testing their emotion recognition abilities. Methods: Seventy-two patients with LA and 68 healthy people were divided inObjective: To LA and Heathy control group，respectively. LA group were subdivided inObjective: To grade 1，2 and 3 LA group according Objective: To LA degree. Emotion recognition abilities of two groups were measured with eye emotion recognition including six basic emotions such as happy， surprise， fear， sad，disgust and anger.Results: The differeces of recognition scores of six basic emotios in two groups had statistical significance(P ＜ 0. 05 Objective: To P ＜ 0. 01). The scores of fear， sad，disgust and anger in grade 3 LA group were lower than those in grade 1 and 2 LA group(P ＜ 0. 05 Objective: To P ＜0. 01).conclusions: There is emotional cognitive impairment in LA patients，which is more obvious with the LA degree aggravating. onclusions: Leukoaraiosis; emotional cognition function; eye emotion recognition test