Impaired social cognition 30 years after hemispherectomy for intractable epilepsy: The importance of the right hemisphere in complex social functioning

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 460-471

  Fournier, N M ^a   Calverley, K L ^a   Wagner, J P ^a   Poock, J L ^a   Crossley, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Emotional expressions; Hemispherectomy; Sarcasm; Social cognition; The Awareness of Social Inferences Test; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONVERSATION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERCEPTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS;

COGNITION; EMOTIONS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 40649109739     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2007.12.009     Document Type: Article

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