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Huntington's disease can particularly affect people's recognition of disgust from facial expressions1,2, and functional neuroimaging research has demonstrated that facial expressions of disgust consistently engage different brain areas (insula and putamen) than other facial expressions3,4,5. However, it is not known whether these particular brain areas process only facial signals of disgust or disgust signals from multiple modalities. Here we describe evidence, from a patient with insula and putamen damage, for a neural system for recognizing social signals of disgust from multiple modalities.
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We thank NK and his family for their time and assistance. Thanks also to Brian Cox for preparing the graphics.
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Calder, A., Keane, J., Manes, F. et al. Impaired recognition and experience of disgust following brain injury . Nat Neurosci 3, 1077–1078 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/80586
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