Table 3.

Means (and standard deviations (SDs)) of continuous judgement in the emotional prosody task for the two groups of PD patients (preoperative and post-operative) and the HC group.

	Happiness scale	Fear scale	Sadness scale	Anger scale	Neutral scale	Surprise scale
	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD
Preoperative (n = 21)
Anger	.90 ± 5.11	4.00 ± 12.14	1.72 ± 6.64	42.50 ± 33.29	5.73 ± 16.00	8.19 ± 18.14
Fear	1.84 ± 8.72	30.76 ± 31.72	9.42 ± 17.71	5.70 ± 16.45	6.17 ± 16.74	9.93 ± 18.15
Happiness	26.88 ± 30.02	6.93 ± 17.23	6.23 ± 17.10	5.03^a ± 14.67	4.00 ± 12.42	13.49 ± 22.08
Neutral	4.80 ± 12.15	.92 ± 4.06	1.46 ± 6.00	.86 ± 6.13	32.28 ± 28.55	9.64 ± 17.44
Sadness	.53 ± 2.41	9.52 ± 21.31	26.16 ± 30.50	.98 ± 6.65	21.77 ± 27.06	2.30 ± 8.32
Post-operative (n = 21)
Anger	1.08 ± 5.36	10.19 ± 21.59	3.38 ± 11.64	53.00 ± 35.33	7.63 ± 19.15	12.56 ± 23.44
Fear	3.96 ± 13.75	42.85^b ± 33.40	12.20^a^,^b± 21.41	10.29 ± 23.70	6.33 ± 16.75	19.74^b ± 27.61
Happiness	33.35 ± 35.29	11.83^a^,^b ± 23.45	10.66^a^,^b ± 23.18	8.33^b ± 20.54	6.75 ± 16.77	21.51 ± 29.17
Neutral	7.39 ± 16.31	3.54 ± 11.61	4.53 ± 13.47	1.64 ± 7.02	41.52 ± 34.59	17.19 ± 26.02
Sadness	2.37^a^,^b ± 11.03	12.16 ± 22.88	39.51^a^,^b ± 34.26	3.64 ± 12.44	23.47 ± 32.13	3.81 ± 11.18
Healthy controls (n = 21)
Anger	.59 ± 3.99	3.89 ± 12.44	1.51 ± 6.51	50.70 ± 32.47	4.88 ± 15.09	6.99 ± 17.34
Fear	1.09 ± 6.69	39.38 ± 28.62	12.79 ± 21.19	8.83 ± 18.34	2.27 ± 10.42	11.10 ± 19.63
Happiness	28.67 ± 30.70	6.30 ± 15.81	8.97 ± 20.46	8.16 ± 19.06	1.49 ± 7.94	16.83 ± 25.59
Neutral	4.74 ± 12.56	.84 ± 4.09	1.93 ± 7.39	.36 ± 2.44	34.21 ± 29.77	14.82 ± 21.66
Sadness	.72 ± 6.60	7.14 ± 18.38	33.19 ± 31.20	1.74 ± 9.21	21.36 ± 29.09	2.38 ± 9.02

PD = Parkinson’s disease.

Significant in comparison to healthy controls (HC).

Significant in comparison to the preoperative group.