In a project led by Eugen Trinka, she and colleagues examined 62 people diagnosed with JME, 17 siblings and 67 controls with regard to social cognition and emotion processing. People with JME performed significantly worse both in recognizing the emotions in pictures of faces and in the ability to draw inferences about the mental state of the other person – their intention, belief and emotion – based on their behavior as healthy subjects.
Salzburg Study – Young epileptics have difficulty recognizing emotions
