Social Perception Deficits After Traumatic Brain Injury: Interaction Between Emotion Recognition, Mentalizing Ability, and Social Communication.

AbstractObjectives:The negative effect of changes in social behavior following traumatic brain injury (TBI) are known, but much less is known about the neuropsychological impairments that may underlie and predict these changes. The current study investigated possible associations between post-injury behavior and neuropsychological competencies of emotion recognition, understanding intentions, and response selection, that have been proposed as important for social functioning.Methods:Forty participants with TBI and 32 matched healthy participants completed a battery of tests assessing the three functions of interest. In addition, self- and proxy reports of pre- and post-injury behavior, mood, and community integration were collected.Results:The TBI group performed significantly poorer than the comparison group on all tasks of emotion recognition, understanding intention, and on one task of response selection. Ratings of current behavior suggested significant changes in the TBI group relative to before the injury and showed significantly poorer community integration and interpersonal behavior than the comparison group. Of the three functions considered, emotion recognition was associated with both post-injury behavior and community integration and this association could not be fully explained by injury severity, time since injury, or education.Conclusions:The current study confirmed earlier findings of associations between emotion recognition and post-TBI behavior, providing partial evidence for models proposing emotion recognition as one of the pre-requisites for adequate social functioning. (JINS, 2017,23, 400–411)

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Relationship between individual differences in functional connectivity and facial-emotion recognition abilities in adults with traumatic brain injury

NeuroImage Clinical ◽

10.1016/j.nicl.2016.12.010 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 13 ◽

pp. 370-377 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

A. Rigon ◽

M.W. Voss ◽

L.S. Turkstra ◽

B. Mutlu ◽

M.C. Duff

Keyword(s):

Traumatic Brain Injury ◽

Individual Differences ◽

Brain Injury ◽

Functional Connectivity ◽

Emotion Recognition ◽

Facial Emotion Recognition ◽

Facial Emotion

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Facial-affect recognition deficit as a predictor of different aspects of social-communication impairment in traumatic brain injury.

Neuropsychology ◽

10.1037/neu0000368 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 32 (4) ◽

pp. 476-483 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Arianna Rigon ◽

Lyn S. Turkstra ◽

Bilge Mutlu ◽

Melissa C. Duff

Keyword(s):

Traumatic Brain Injury ◽

Brain Injury ◽

Social Communication ◽

Facial Affect ◽

Affect Recognition ◽

Facial Affect Recognition ◽

Communication Impairment

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Emotion Recognition in Low-Spatial Frequencies Is Partly Preserved following Traumatic Brain Injury

BioMed Research International ◽

10.1155/2019/9562935 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2019 ◽

pp. 1-10 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Alessia Celeghin ◽

Valentina Galetto ◽

Marco Tamietto ◽

Marina Zettin

Keyword(s):

Traumatic Brain Injury ◽

Brain Injury ◽

Spatial Frequency ◽

Emotion Recognition ◽

Diffuse Axonal Injury ◽

Reaction Times ◽

Emotion Perception ◽

High Spatial Frequency ◽

Healthy Controls ◽

Spatial Frequencies

After a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), emotion recognition is typically impaired. This is commonly attributed to widespread multifocal damage in cortical areas involved in emotion processing as well as to Diffuse Axonal Injury (DAI). However, current models suggest that emotional recognition is subserved by a distributed network cantered on the amygdala, which involves both cortical and subcortical structures. While the cortical system is preferentially tuned to process high spatial frequencies, the subcortical networks are more sensitive to low-spatial frequencies. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether emotion perception from low-spatial frequencies underpinning the subcortical system is relatively preserved in TBI patients. We tested a group of 14 subjects with severe TBI and 20 matched healthy controls. Each participant was asked to recognize the emotion expressed by each stimulus that consisted of happy and fearful faces, filtered for their low and high spatial frequencies components. Results in TBI patients’ performances showed that low-spatial frequency expressions were recognized with higher accuracy and faster reaction times when compared to high spatial frequency stimuli. On the contrary, healthy controls did not show any effect in the two conditions, neither for response accuracy nor for reaction times. The outcomes of this study indicate that emotion perception from low-spatial frequencies is relatively preserved in TBI, thereby suggesting spare of functioning in the subcortical system in mediating emotion recognition.

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Social Communication Following Adult Traumatic Brain Injury: A Scoping Review of Theoretical Models

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology ◽

10.1044/2020_ajslp-19-00020 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 29 (3) ◽

pp. 1735-1748

Author(s):

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Lindsey Byom ◽

Therese M. O'Neil-Pirozzi ◽

Rik Lemoncello ◽

Sheila MacDonald ◽

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Keyword(s):

Traumatic Brain Injury ◽

Brain Injury ◽

Scoping Review ◽

Social Communication ◽

Theoretical Models ◽

Speech Language Pathology ◽

Speech Language Pathologists ◽

Communication Problems ◽

Assessment And Treatment ◽

Language Pathology

Purpose Social communication is the set of abilities that allows individuals to achieve relevant social goals across contexts. Speech-language pathology evaluation and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI)-related social communication problems should be informed by evidence-supported theories of social communication. The primary purpose of this article is to summarize the results of a scoping review of theoretical models that speech-language pathologists may apply to the evaluation and treatment of social communication problems of adults with TBI. Method A scoping review was conducted of PubMed, PsycINFO, and Embase for sources published in English between 1989 and 2020 that described human social communication and participation. Resulting sources were systematically examined for social communication models. Results Nine theoretical models were identified that speech-language pathologists may apply to their assessment and treatment of social communication abilities of adults with TBI. Identified models were categorized thematically into one of three classes: cognitive models, social competence models, and pragmatic models. Using a framework developed for the purposes of this article, each identified model was evaluated, and one exemplar model in each class is described in depth. Conclusions Social communication problems in adults post-TBI are common. The existence of multiple models empowers speech-language pathologists to select individual-focused assessment and treatment approaches to maximize intervention outcomes.

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