Longitudinal aspects of emotion recognition in patients with traumatic brain injury

Ietswaart, Magdalena, Crawford, John R., Currie, David, Milders, Maarten and Scott, Claire (2008) Longitudinal aspects of emotion recognition in patients with traumatic brain injury. Neuropsychologia, 46 (1). pp. 148-159. ISSN 0028-3932

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Abstract

Changes in emotional and social behaviour are relatively common following traumatic brain injury (TBI). Impairments in recognising the emotional state of others may underlie some of the problems in social relationships that these patients experience. The few previous studies examining emotion recognition in TBI typically assessed patients once, long after the onset of brain injury, making it difficult to distinguish the direct effect of brain injury from the effects of environmental changes. This study examined 30 patients with TBI shortly after brain injury and 32 orthopaedic control patients on their recognition of emotions expressed in the face and the voice using discrimination and labelling tasks. These patients were followed up 1 year later to examine the longitudinal development of emotion recognition deficits. TBI patients were found to be impaired on emotion recognition compared to the control patients both early after injury and 1 year later. The fact that impairments in emotion recognition were evident early after TBI and no evidence of recovery over time was found, suggests a direct effect of brain injury.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	B100 Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology C800 Psychology
Department:	Faculties > Health and Life Sciences > Psychology
Depositing User:	EPrint Services
Date Deposited:	08 Dec 2008 13:04
Last Modified:	12 Oct 2019 16:28
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/2857

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