Exploring social cognition in patients with apathy following acquired brain damage
| dc.contributor.author | Njomboro, Progress | |
| dc.contributor.author | Humphreys, Glyn W | |
| dc.contributor.author | Deb, Shoumitro | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-07-30T04:12:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-07-30T04:12:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-01-23 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2015-04-02T18:02:10Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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 processing, and the perception of facial expressions of emotion. We also controlled for the likely effects of executive deficits and depressive symptoms on these comparisons. Results Our results indicated that patients with apathy were distinctively impaired in making moral reasoning decisions and in judging the social appropriateness of behaviour. Deficits in Theory of Mind and perception of facial expressions of emotion did not distinguish patients with apathy from those without apathy. Conclusion Our findings point to a possible socio-cognitive profile for apathy symptoms and provide initial insights into how socio-cognitive deficits in patients with apathy may affect social functioning. | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Njomboro, P., Humphreys, G. W., & Deb, S. (2014). Exploring social cognition in patients with apathy following acquired brain damage. <i>BMC Neurology</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13632 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Njomboro, Progress, Glyn W Humphreys, and Shoumitro Deb "Exploring social cognition in patients with apathy following acquired brain damage." <i>BMC Neurology</i> (2014) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13632 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Njomboro, P., Humphreys, G. W., & Deb, S. (2014). Exploring social cognition in patients with apathy following acquired brain damage. BMC neurology, 14(1), 18. | |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Njomboro, Progress AU - Humphreys, Glyn W AU - Deb, Shoumitro AB - 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 processing, and the perception of facial expressions of emotion. We also controlled for the likely effects of executive deficits and depressive symptoms on these comparisons. Results Our results indicated that patients with apathy were distinctively impaired in making moral reasoning decisions and in judging the social appropriateness of behaviour. Deficits in Theory of Mind and perception of facial expressions of emotion did not distinguish patients with apathy from those without apathy. Conclusion Our findings point to a possible socio-cognitive profile for apathy symptoms and provide initial insights into how socio-cognitive deficits in patients with apathy may affect social functioning. DA - 2014-01-23 DB - OpenUCT DO - 10.1186/1471-2377-14-18 DP - University of Cape Town J1 - BMC Neurology LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2014 T1 - Exploring social cognition in patients with apathy following acquired brain damage TI - Exploring social cognition in patients with apathy following acquired brain damage UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13632 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13632 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2377-14-18 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Njomboro P, Humphreys GW, Deb S. Exploring social cognition in patients with apathy following acquired brain damage. BMC Neurology. 2014; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13632. | en_ZA |
| dc.language.rfc3066 | en | |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of Psychology | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.rights | This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License | * |
| dc.rights.holder | Njomboro et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 | * |
| dc.source | BMC Neurology | en_ZA |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcneurol/ | |
| dc.subject.other | Psychology | en_ZA |
| dc.subject.other | Neurology | en_ZA |
| dc.subject.other | Apathy | en_ZA |
| dc.subject.other | Brain damage | en_ZA |
| dc.subject.other | Social cognition | en_ZA |
| dc.subject.other | Theory of mind | en_ZA |
| dc.subject.other | Emotion perception | en_ZA |
| dc.title | Exploring social cognition in patients with apathy following acquired brain damage | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en_ZA |
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