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JOURNAL REFERENCE: DRAPIER D, PERON J, LERAY E, ET AL. EMOTION RECOGNITION IMPAIRMENT AND APATHY AFTER SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS STIMULATION IN PARKINSON'S DISEASE HAVE SEPARATE NEURAL SUBSTRATES. NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA. 2008; 46(11):2796-2801. THE OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY WAS TO TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT EMOTION RECOGNITION AND APATHY SHARE THE SAME FUNCTIONAL CIRCUIT INVOLVING THE SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS (STN). A CONSECUTIVE SERIES OF 17 PTS WITH ADVANCED PARKINSON'S DISEASE (PD) WAS ASSESSED 3 MONTHS BEFORE AND 3 MONTHS AFTER STN DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION (DBS). REPORTABLE EVENT: APATHY WAS SIGNIFICANTLY WORSE AT M3 AFTER STN-DBS, IN RELATION TO THE PREOPERATIVE. THE ENTIRE POSTOPERATIVE GROUP WAS DEEMED TO BE SUFFERING FROM APATHY. THE COGNITIVE AND EMOTIONAL SUBSCORES OF THE APATHY SCALE WERE SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER AFTER SURGERY.