Exploring social cognition in patients with apathy following acquired brain damage.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Research on cognition in apathy has largely focused on executive functions. To the best of our knowledge, no studies have investigated the relationship between apathy symptoms and processes involved in social cognition. Apathy symptoms include attenuated emotional behaviour, low social engagement and social withdrawal, all of which may be linked to underlying socio-cognitive deficits.

Methods

We compared patients with brain damage who also had apathy symptoms against similar patients with brain damage but without apathy symptoms. Both patient groups were also compared against normal controls on key socio-cognitive measures involving moral reasoning, social awareness related to making judgements between normative and non-normative behaviour, Theory of Mind processi

SUBMITTER: Njomboro P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3943587 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature