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Predictors of very-long-term sociocognitive function after pediatric traumatic brain injury: evidence for the vulnerability of the immature "social brain"
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posted on 2014-04-01, 00:00 authored by Nicholas RyanNicholas Ryan, Vicki Anderson, Celia Godfrey, Miriam H Beauchamp, Lee Coleman, Senem Eren, Stefanie Rosema, Kaitlyn Taylor, Cathy CatroppaEmotion perception (EP) forms an integral part of social communication and is critical to attain developmentally appropriate goals. This skill, which emerges relatively early in development, is driven by increasing connectivity among regions of a distributed sociocognitive neural network and may be vulnerable to disruption from early-childhood traumatic brain injury (TBI). The present study aimed to evaluate the very-long-term effect of childhood TBI on EP, as well as examine the contribution of injury- and non-injury-related risk and resilience factors to variability in sociocognitive outcomes. Thirty-four young adult survivors of early-childhood TBI (mean [M], 20.62 years; M time since injury, 16.55 years) and 16 typically developing controls matched for age, gender, and socioeconomic status were assessed using tasks that required recognition and interpretation of facial and prosodic emotional cues. Survivors of severe childhood TBI were found to have significantly poorer emotion perception than controls and young adults with mild-to-moderate injuries. Further, poorer emotion perception was associated with reduced volume of the posterior corpus callosum, presence of frontal pathology, lower SES, and a less-intimate family environment. Our findings lend support to the vulnerability of the immature "social brain" network to early disruption and underscore the need for context-sensitive rehabilitation that optimizes early family environments to enhance recovery of EP skills after childhood TBI.
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Journal of neurotraumaVolume
31Issue
7Pagination
649 - 657Publisher
Mary Ann Liebert PublishersLocation
New Rochelle, N.Y.Publisher DOI
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1557-9042Language
engPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2014, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.Usage metrics
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Brain InjuriesChildEmotional IntelligenceFemaleHumansMaleNeuropsychological TestsSurvivorsYoung AdultScience & TechnologyLife Sciences & BiomedicineCritical Care MedicineClinical NeurologyNeurosciencesGeneral & Internal MedicineNeurosciences & Neurologytraumatic brain injuryemotion perceptionsociocognitive functionchildhoodEMOTION RECOGNITIONCORPUS-CALLOSUMFAMILY ENVIRONMENTFACIAL EXPRESSIONHEAD-INJURYPERCEPTIONCHILDRENDEFICITSOUTCOMES
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