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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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Commonwealth BuildingHammersmith Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Njomboro:2014:10.1186/1471-2377-14-18,
author = {Njomboro, P and Humphreys, GW and Deb, S},
doi = {10.1186/1471-2377-14-18},
journal = {BMC Neurology},
title = {Exploring social cognition in patients with apathy following acquired brain damage},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2377-14-18},
volume = {14},
year = {2014}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - 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.
AU  - Njomboro,P
AU  - Humphreys,GW
AU  - Deb,S
DO  - 10.1186/1471-2377-14-18
PY  - 2014///
SN  - 1471-2377
TI  - Exploring social cognition in patients with apathy following acquired brain damage
T2  - BMC Neurology
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2377-14-18
UR  - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24450311
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/71903
VL  - 14
ER  -
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