Social cognition impairments in relation to general cognitive deficits, injury severity, and prefrontal lesions in traumatic brain injury patients

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 101-111

  Spikman, Jacoba M ^a,b   Timmerman, Marieke E ^a   Milders, Maarten V ^c   Veenstra, Wencke S ^b   Van Der Naalt, Joukje ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

emotion recognition; injury severity; prefrontal lesions; social cognition; traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMPATHY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIOPATHY; THEORY OF MIND; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR DISORDERS;

EID: 84856479772     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2011.2084     Document Type: Article

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