Open Access<p>Dysfunction in Automatic Processing of Emotional Facial Expressions in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome: An Event-Related Potential Study</p>
Author(s) -
Renjun Lv,
Shanjing Nie,
Zhenhua Liu,
Yunliang Guo,
Yue Zhang,
Shu Xu,
Xunyao Hou,
Jian Chen,
Yan Ma,
Zhongyu Fan,
Xueping Liu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
nature and science of sleep
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.715
H-Index - 34
ISSN - 1179-1608
DOI - 10.2147/nss.s267775
Subject(s) - medicine , obstructive sleep apnea , audiology , event related potential , neurocognitive , electrophysiology , cardiology , apnea , correlation , neuropsychology , polysomnography , cognition , psychiatry , geometry , mathematics
Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is a prevalent chronic disease characterized by sleep fragmentation and intermittent hypoxemia. Several studies suggested that electrophysiological changes and neurocognitive abnormalities occurred in OSAS patients. In this study, we compared automatic processing of emotional facial expressions schematic in OSAS patients and matched healthy controls via assessing expression-related mismatch negativity (EMMN).