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Rae, C. L., Polyanska, L., Gould van Praag, C.D., Parkinson, J., Bouyagoub, S., Nagai, Y., Seth, A.K., Harrison, N., Garfinkel, S. N. and Critchley, H.D. (2018) Face perception enhances insula and motor network reactivity in Tourette syndrome. Brain 141:11 3249-3261
Brains of people with Tourette syndrome react differently to emotional faces
The symptoms experienced by people with Tourette syndrome often get worse in social situations. New research at Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) suggests that the reason may be because the brains of people with Tourette syndrome are hyper-responsive to social cues, including emotional facial expressions.
Research Fellow Dr Charlotte Rae, who conducted the study, said: “People with Tourette syndrome often report that their tics get worse in stressful social situations where they are under public scrutiny. Now for the first time, functional MRI scanning has shown how this is probably occurring – through an increase in activity in the insula, and the signals that this area sends to the regions of the brain that cause tics. This understanding may help us to work on new therapies for people with Tourette syndrome, by developing ways to manage the increase in insula activity in such scenarios.”
- Broad, R.J., Gabel, M.C., Dowell, N.G., Schwartzman, D.J., Seth, A. K., Zhang, H., Alexander, D.C., Cercignani, M., Leigh, N. (2018) Neurite orientation and dispersion density imaging (NODDI) detects cortical and corticospinal tract degeneration in ALS. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 0:1-8
- Rae C.L., Larsson D.E.O., Eccles J.A., Ward J., Critchley H.D. (2018) Subjective embodiment during the rubber hand illusion predicts severity of premonitory sensations and tics in Tourette Syndrome. Consciousness and Cognition 65, 368-377
- Roseboom, W. (in press) Serial dependence in timing perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
- Roseboom, W., Fountas, Z., Nikiforou, K., Bhownik, D., Shanahan, M., Seth, A.K. (in press) Activity in perceptual classification networks as a basis for human subjective time perception. Nature Comms
- Rothen, N., Seth, A.K. Ward, J. (2018) Synaesthesia improves sensory memory, when perceptual awareness is high. Vision Research 153: 1-6
- Seth, A.K. (in press) From unconscious inference to the Beholder’s share: Predictive perception and human experience. European Review
- Seth, A.K., Tsakiris, M. (2018) Being a beast machine; the somatic basis of selfhood. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 22:11 969-98
- Seth, A.K. (2018) Consciousness: The last 50 years (and the next). Brain and Neuroscience Advances 2:1-6