Social Cognition in Patients With Hypothalamic-Pituitary Tumors.

ABSTRACT: Objectives: The current study aimed to investigate whether childhood-onset craniopharyngioma patients are impaired in social-cognitive skills, and whether individual differences in task performance are modulated by the neurohormone oxytocin. Study design: We tested 31 adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma patients with and without hypothalamic lesions and 35 age- and gender-matched healthy controls. To test for between-group differences in social-cognitive skills, we experimentally assessed participants' abilities to interpret social signs or dispositions and to understand others' thoughts, feelings, and intentions. Associations between fasting oxytocin saliva concentrations and task performance were analyzed across the whole group of participants. Results: Compared to co

SUBMITTER: Ozyurt J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7343961 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature