The attitudes of Australian General practitioners to breaking the news of dementia: a qualitative and quantitative exploration

different performance profiles on the remaining four tasks (i) LPAwere impaired on emotion matching and emotion selection tasks, (ii) AD were impaired on identity matching and emotion selection tasks, and (iii) PNFA were not significantly impaired on any of the tasks. These patterns of results remained essentially unchanged after controlling for face perception performance. Conclusions: These results indicate that PNFA, LPA and AD patients show distinct profiles of deficits on tasks of facial emotion recognition. Our findings have clinical implications: They suggest that tests of emotion recognition discriminate PNFA from LPA and may be useful to identify the patients with AD pathology who can potentially benefit from the few therapeutic interventions (e.g., acetylcholinesterase inhibitors) currently available.