C-24Executive Functions Predicting Social Cognition in Adolescents with Traumatic Brain Injury

Social cognition four years after mild-TBI: An age-matched prospective longitudinal cohort study.

“…People following moderate to severe TBI have been found to have difficulties in emotion recognition, accurately comprehending sarcasm, and identifying what people feel, intend, and mean (McDonald & Flanagan, 2004). Known predictive factors of social cognition deficits include preinjury social functioning, additional injuries at time of accident, postinjury cognitive impairment (including executive functioning deficits), and mood (McDonald, Fisher, & Flanagan, 2016; Muscara, Catroppa, Eren, & Anderson, 2009; Paul, Emami, Hussey, Mayfield, & Allen, 2016). Social–cognitive abilities include the recognition of facial, vocal, and gestural affect, experience of emotional empathy, and ability to gauge what is on another’s mind (Theory of Mind; Schaafsma, Pfaff, Spunt, & Adolphs, 2015), abilities that appear to be mediated by ventromedial frontal and temporal lobe networks.…”