Neurological diseases can prevent a person from experiencing anger
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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.
Evidence for · 3
Neural association between mental symptoms and facial emotion recognition in deficit schizophrenia: an fNIRS study.
2025 · cited by 1
Patients with deficit schizophrenia show reduced activation in prefrontal areas specifically during anger recognition tasks.
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Good recovery is not full recovery: emotion recognition deficits and different regulation strategies in mild right-hemisphere ischemic stroke survivors.
2026 · cited by 0
Mild right-hemisphere ischemic stroke survivors exhibit significant deficits in identifying anger and other basic emotions.
Explicit and Implicit Emotion Processing: The Role of Spatial Frequencies in a Case Study of Right Capsulo-Thalamic Damage.
2026 · cited by 0
Right capsulo-thalamic damage impairs the fine-grained discrimination of negative emotions such as anger.