Emotional Perception and Production in Facial Palsy: Respiratory, Vocal and Facial Markers. (ResPPF)

Association pour le Développement et l'Organisation de la Recherche en Pneumologie et sur le Sommeil

Status: Completed

Conditions: Facial Palsy

Treatments: Other: Records

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03619720

2018-A01043-52

Details and patient eligibility

About

Respiratory function, phonation and facial expressivity are related to emotional reaction through neurophysiological process. Specific emotional respiratory, vocal and facial patterns had been described in literature. Respiratory cycles variation is modulated by stimulus arousal. Furthermore, inspiratory-to-expiratory time ratio in abdominal area is modulated by emotional valence. Inextricably linked to respiration, vocal production depends on emotional arousal and valence too.

According to embodied cognition, the effector pattern of an emotion initiates the corresponding subjective activation. Facial recognition is influenced by automatic mimicry and facial feedback. Most facial feedback studies included patients with diplegia but few studies dealt with emotional perception in Bell's palsy.

The aim of the present study is to understand production and perception of emotion in Bell's palsy with respiratory, vocal and facial markers. What impact lack of mimicry have on physiological emotional reaction in Bell's palsy? To this end, prospective monocentric study will be conducted with 60 patients with Bell's Palsy from grade II to grade VI of House & Brackmann's scale. During production and perception of vocal and facial expression, respiratory rate and thoraco-abdominal movements will be analyzed. The investigators hypothesize that severity of facial deficit is negatively correlated with variation of respiratory cycles, lower segmental and suprasegmental changes during vocal expression, and lower facial perception (congruency and arousal).

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients affiliated to the health care system
• Patients must have been diagnosed with unilateral peripheral facial palsy stage III to VI, according to House and Brackmann international classification.
• To be able to read, understand and sign a consent
• To be able to understand French spoken and written

Exclusion criteria

• Diplegia or facial graft
• Visual disorders, non corrected
• Respiratory or vocal disorders
• Psychiatric history
• Facial surgery

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 1 patient group

Participants

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Records