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Journal Title
Neural Regeneration Research
Year (definitive publication)
2012
Language
English
Country
India
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Abstract
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
Facial emotion recognition,Social emotions,Traumatic brain injury
Fields of Science and Technology Classification
- Biological Sciences - Natural Sciences
- Basic Medicine - Medical and Health Sciences
Funding Records
Funding Reference | Funding Entity |
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PEst-OE/PSI/UI3125/2011 | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |