Aprosodia is a neurological condition characterized by the inability of a person to properly convey or interpret emotional prosody.
[3] One cause of aprosodia is trauma to one of several specific areas of the brain, resulting in the inability to properly process or convey emotional cues.
When tested using the aprosodia battery, it was found that those with alcohol use disorder who detoxified and FAexp individuals demonstrated significant impairment in their ability to detect affective prosody when used by others.
The analysis is often performed by two experts independently, with one of the judges not being present during the interview in case the patient was still able to use facial cues.
[8] Brain imaging studies related to speech functions have yielded insights into the subtle difference between aprosodia and dysprosody.
The basis for this treatment is the belief that there exists a defined set of emotional responses that can be chosen for a given scenario.
Imitative treatments attempt to help "kickstart" the motor systems involved in the production of both vocal and facial emotive gestures.
Although the biggest limitation on progress of aprosodia treatment is sample size, some significant data has been found to influence each subsequent phase of study.
Aprosodia can be considered a dominant function of the right hemisphere because strong correlation was found between deficits in affective prosody and distribution of lesions in the cortices of those with right brain damage.