Deficits in Facial Emotion Recognition Indicate Behavioral Changes and Impaired Self-Awareness after Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Spikman, Jacoba M ^a,b   Milders, Maarten V ^c   Visser Keizer, Annemarie C ^a,b   Westerhof Evers, Herma J ^a   Herben Dekker, Meike ^b,d   van der Naalt, Joukje ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Rehabilitation Center Friesland   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHRONICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSEXECUTIVE QUESTIONNAIRE; FACIAL EMOTION RECOGNITION DEFICIT; FEAR DISGUST ANGER HAPPINESS SADNESS OR SURPRISE STIMULI TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CONCEPT IMPAIRMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADULT; AWARENESS; BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS; BRAIN INJURIES; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 84878954156     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065581     Document Type: Article

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