Affective Empathy, Theory of Mind and Social Functioning in Patients With Focal Epilepsy.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Social cognition comprises basic and more complex functions, such as theory of mind (ToM) and affective empathy. Although everyday social interactions may be impaired if such higher-order social cognitive functions are compromised, associations between social functioning and social cognition in people with focal epilepsy (PWFE) are still poorly understood. We used a novel, naturalistic approach to investigate ToM in PWFE by applying the Movie for the Assessment of Social Cognition (MASC). Furthermore, we studied affective empathy, the relationship between social cognitive parameters and measures of social functioning, as well as between epilepsy focus and ToM.

Methods

Thirty patients with either temporal (TLE) or frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE) were compared to 29 heal

SUBMITTER: Metternich B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9309689 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature