The cognitive-behavioral missing link in myotonic dystrophy type 1: Rethinking social cognition assessment
Emanuele Maria Costantini, Silvi Cadri, Alice Ciattaglia, Michela Coccia, Valeria A. Sansone · 2026
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Description
Myotonic dystrophy type 1 affects muscle, but it also changes thinking and social behavior. A 2026 paper by Emanuele Maria Costantini and co-authors asks whether standard tests miss part of that picture. The team compared 33 people with the disease and 40 healthy adults on two tests of reading feelings and empathy.
Scores told a split story: patients did worse on one test but matched controls on the other. Timing told a clearer one, since patients took longer on every social task, even after general thinking skills were taken into account. The authors argue that how long a task takes can reveal strain that right-or-wrong scores hide, and that clinics should record both when judging social thinking in this disease.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Emanuele Maria Costantini, Silvi Cadri, Alice Ciattaglia, Michela Coccia, Valeria A. Sansone |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 72 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |