Neurological diseases can prevent a person from experiencing anger
Neurological conditions such as stroke, schizophrenia, and localized brain lesions can impair facial and socioemotional recognition, frequently disrupting a person's ability to process or experience specific emotions like anger.
The retrieved papers consistently demonstrate that various neurological conditions (schizophrenia, stroke, and capsulo-thalamic lesions) lead to deficits in recognizing or processing anger and other basic emotions, supporting the claim that neurological diseases can impact the experience or recognition of anger.
Hu Y, Yang G, Zhang H, Li Y, Yuan G, Duan J, Liu T, Zhao H, Qiao J, He C. Neural association between mental symptoms and facial emotion recognition in deficit schizophrenia: an fNIRS study.. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-025-07558-w
Patients with deficit schizophrenia show reduced activation in prefrontal areas specifically during anger recognition tasks.
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Ruiz-García Á, García-Rodríguez B. Good recovery is not full recovery: emotion recognition deficits and different regulation strategies in mild right-hemisphere ischemic stroke survivors.. 2026. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1803288
Mild right-hemisphere ischemic stroke survivors exhibit significant deficits in identifying anger and other basic emotions.
Tommasi V, Padulo C, Prete G, Leo A, Franco A, De Francesco T, Viva MR, Tommasi L, Lucci G, Marinelli CV. Explicit and Implicit Emotion Processing: The Role of Spatial Frequencies in a Case Study of Right Capsulo-Thalamic Damage.. 2026. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence14040060
Right capsulo-thalamic damage impairs the fine-grained discrimination of negative emotions such as anger.
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