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Changes in social emotion recognition following traumatic frontal lobe injury
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Abstract(s)
Changes in social and emotional behaviour have been consistently observed in patients with
traumatic brain injury. These changes are associated with emotion recognition deficits which
represent one of the major barriers to a successful familiar and social reintegration. In the present
study, 32 patients with traumatic brain injury, involving the frontal lobe, and 41 age- and
education-matched healthy controls were analyzed. A Go/No-Go task was designed, where each
participant had to recognize faces representing three social emotions (arrogance, guilt and
jealousy). Results suggested that ability to recognize two social emotions (arrogance and jealousy)
was significantly reduced in patients with traumatic brain injury, indicating frontal lesion can reduce
emotion recognition ability. In addition, the analysis of the results for hemispheric lesion location
(right, left or bilateral) suggested the bilateral lesion sub-group showed a lower accuracy on all
social emotions.
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Keywords
Traumatic brain injury Facial emotion recognition Social emotions
Citation
Martins, Ana Teresa; Faísca, Luís; Esteves, Francisco; Simao, Claudia; Justo, Mariline Gomes; Muresan, Angelica; Reis, Alexandra. Changes in social emotion recognition following traumatic frontal lobe injury, Neural Regeneration Research, 7, 2, 101-108, 2012.
Publisher
Elsevier