Deficit of social cognition with patients following the temporal lobes infarction
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1006-7876.2013.06.006
- VernacularTitle:右侧颞叶脑梗死患者的社会认知障碍
- Author:
Nan TANG
;
Youling ZHU
;
Chunhua XI
;
Wei CAI
;
Daohui SONG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Brain infarction;
Temporal lobe;
Cognition disorders;
Neuropsychological tests
- From:
Chinese Journal of Neurology
2013;(6):379-382
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To investigate the ability of social cognition in patients with right temporal lobe infarction.Methods Fifteen patients with temporal lobe infarction (TLI) and 20 healthy controls (HC) were examined with the recognition of faux pas and reading the mind in the eyes tasks for assessing the ability of social cognition.Results The TLI group performed significantly worse when compared with the HC group (28.6 ± 6.1,36.4 ± 4.3 respectively) as revealed in the total faux pas-related scores (U =41.00,P ＜0.01).For the control question,there was no significant difference between the TLI group and the HC group (9.86 ±0.35,10.00 ± 0.00 ; U =130.00,P =0.097).In the reading the mind in the eyes task,patients with TLI performed worse than the HC group(17.13 ±6.41,29.75 ±2.07 respectively),and the difference had statistical significance (U =0.00,P ＜ 0.01).But there was no significant difference in gender recognition judgment (30.37 ± 1.16,31.35 ± 1.08 respectively; U =106.00,P =0.129).Conclusions The right temporal lobe involves in social cognition.Moreover,the right temporal lobe not only involves in the verbal related social cognitive processing,but also involves in the no-verbal related social cognitive processing.
