Disorders of Emotional Communication in Traumatic Brain Injury

Wauters, Lisa; Marquardt, Thomas P.

doi:10.1055/s-0038-1676364

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“…When people with TBI misinterpret affective and social cues, fail to make the necessary inferences to accurately interpret someone's message and/or fail to make use of the available social cues to regulate their behaviour and respond appropriately, they face social rejection and social isolation (Kelly et al, 2013). Thus, poor psychosocial functioning results in reduced social support, which contributes to the reduction in meaningful relationships and poor employment outcomes following TBI (Kelly et al, 2013;Wauters & Marquardt, 2019). As a consequence, people with moderate to severe TBI are at increased risk of depression and suicidal ideation (Douglas & Spellacy, 2000;Tsaousides et al, 2011).…”

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The relationship between vocal affect recognition and psychosocial functioning for people with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury: a systematic review

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The purpose of this review was to explore how vocal affect recognition deficits impact the psychosocial functioning of people with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). A systematic review following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines was conducted, whereby six databases were searched, with additional hand searching of key journals also completed. The search identified 1847 records after duplicates were removed, and 1749 were excluded through title and abstract screening. After full text screening of 65 peer-reviewed articles published between January 1999 and August 2019, only five met inclusion criteria. The methodological quality of selected studies was assessed using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT) Version 2018 with a fair level of agreement reached. A narrative synthesis of the results was completed, exploring vocal affect recognition and psychosocial functioning of people with moderate to severe TBI, including aspects of social cognition (i.e., empathy; Theory of Mind) and social behaviour. Results of the review were limited by a paucity of research in this area, a lack of high-level evidence, and wide variation in the outcome measures used. More rigorous study designs are required to establish more conclusive evidence regarding the degree and direction of the association between vocal affect recognition and aspects of psychosocial functioning. This review is registered with Prospero.

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The relationship between vocal affect recognition and psychosocial functioning for people with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury: a systematic review

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“…To the best of our knowledge, no other studies have set out to use eye movement training in other cohorts with deficits in facial affect recognition. Although a small number of researchers have piloted various intervention techniques targeted at improving facial affect recognition in people with moderate to severe TBI ( 7 , 8 ; 42 ; 51 ; 70 ), they do not appear to have recorded or reported upon the nature of the visual scanpath employed by these individuals.…”

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Visual scanpath training to emotional faces following severe traumatic brain injury: A single case design

Vassallo

Douglas

2021

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The visual scanpath to emotional facial expressions was recorded in BR, a 35-year-old male with chronic severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), both before and after he underwent intervention. The novel intervention paradigm combined visual scanpath training with verbal feedback and was implemented over a 3-month period using a single case design (AB) with one follow up session. At baseline BR’s scanpath was restricted, characterised by gaze allocation primarily to salient facial features on the right side of the face stimulus. Following intervention his visual scanpath became more lateralised, although he continued to demonstrate an attentional bias to the right side of the face stimulus. This study is the first to demonstrate change in both the pattern and the position of the visual scanpath to emotional faces following intervention in a person with chronic severe TBI. In addition, these findings extend upon our previous work to suggest that modification of the visual scanpath through targeted facial feature training can support improved facial recognition performance in a person with severe TBI.

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“…The ability to communicate effectively is essential in our daily lives. This ability is often impaired due to brain injuries, such as traumatic brain injury (TBI), becoming an obstacle to the social reintegration of these subjects [1][2][3][4][5][6] .…”

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Transcultural translation and adaptation of the Assessment Battery for Communication (ABaCo) for the Portuguese population

2020

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ABSTRACT Purpose: to perform the transcultural adaptation and translation of the ABaCo battery for the Portuguese population and check its psychometric properties. Methods: initially, the translation and retroversion of ABaCo was done. A total of 40 participants without pathology were recruited. Two equivalent Forms (Form A and Form B) were used, consisting of linguistic, extralinguistic, paralinguistic and context scales. The instrument was also applied to 12 people who were in the chronic phase after severe or moderate traumatic brain injury (TBI). For statistical analysis the following tests were used: Mann-Whitney U test, Student t test for independent samples, Pearson's correlation (the value is considered significant when p ≤ 0.05) and Cronbach's alpha (the value is considered minimally acceptable when superior to 0.65). Results: TBIs’ participants showed lower results as compared to those without neurological pathology. The evidence was discriminatory for the population with TBI, although, on some scales, it was not, due to the ceiling effect. Differences were not found between the two Forms. The results also showed the existence of correlation of schooling and age with some of the components of ABaCo, as verified in the original version. No differences in gender-conditioned responses were found. The battery showed good metrical qualities with a Cronbach's alpha of 0.90 (Form A) and 0.71 (Form B), for the total sample. Conclusion: ABaCo has proved to be an appropriate instrument for assessing communication in the Portuguese adult population. Despite the limitations, this instrument is expected to be useful in the evaluation of the communication, following TBI.

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Disorders of Emotional Communication in Traumatic Brain Injury

Cited by 10 publications

References 66 publications

The relationship between vocal affect recognition and psychosocial functioning for people with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury: a systematic review

The relationship between vocal affect recognition and psychosocial functioning for people with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury: a systematic review

Visual scanpath training to emotional faces following severe traumatic brain injury: A single case design

Transcultural translation and adaptation of the Assessment Battery for Communication (ABaCo) for the Portuguese population

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