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Professor Shoumitro (Shoumi) Deb

Faculty of Medicine, Department of Brain Sciences

Visiting Professor
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 3313 4161s.deb CV

 
 
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Location

 

Commonwealth BuildingHammersmith Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Njomboro:2014:10.3389/fneur.2014.00073,
author = {Njomboro, P and Deb, S},
doi = {10.3389/fneur.2014.00073},
journal = {Frontiers in Neurology},
pages = {73--73},
title = {Distinct neuropsychological correlates of cognitive, behavioral, and affective apathy sub-domains in acquired brain injury},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2014.00073},
volume = {5},
year = {2014}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Apathy has a high prevalence and a significant contribution to treatment and rehabilitation outcomes in acquired brain damage. Research on the disorder's neuropsychological correlates has produced mixed results. While the mixed picture may be due to the use of varied assessment tools on different patient populations, it is also the case that most studies treat apathy as a unitary syndrome. This is despite the evidence that apathy is a multifaceted and multidimensional syndrome. This study investigates the neuropsychological correlates of apathy in 49 patients with acquired brain damage. It further fractionates apathy symptoms into affective, cognitive, and behavioral sub-domains and investigates their individual relations with standard measures of affective, cognitive, and behavioral functioning. Global apathy scores were not related to any of these measures. Affective apathy was associated with emotion perception deficits, and cognitive apathy was associated with executive deficits on the Brixton test. These results demonstrate that treating apathy as a single entity may hide important correlates to apathy symptoms that become visible when the disorder is fractionated into its sub-domains. The study highlights the research and clinical importance of treating apathy as a multidimensional syndrome.
AU  - Njomboro,P
AU  - Deb,S
DO  - 10.3389/fneur.2014.00073
EP  - 73
PY  - 2014///
SN  - 1664-2295
SP  - 73
TI  - Distinct neuropsychological correlates of cognitive, behavioral, and affective apathy sub-domains in acquired brain injury
T2  - Frontiers in Neurology
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2014.00073
UR  - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24904518
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/71904
VL  - 5
ER  -
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