Banca de DEFESA: NAYARA KARINA FERREIRA PEREIRA

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STUDENT : NAYARA KARINA FERREIRA PEREIRA
DATE: 19/11/2021
TIME: 08:00
LOCAL: Formato remoto
TITLE:

EVALUATION OF SOCIAL COGNITION IN POST-STROKE PATIENTS: HEMISPHERIC ANALYSIS

KEY WORDS:

Cognition. Social cognition. Theory of mind. Cerebral hemisphere.

 

PAGES: 44
BIG AREA: Ciências da Saúde
AREA: Fisioterapia e Terapia Ocupacional
SUMMARY:

Introduction: Social cognition in post-stroke patients is one of the increasingly explored fields of research in the study of post-acquired brain injury psychiatric disorders. It is conceptualized as a complex construct of sociocognitive skills concerning the ability to process social information. It is a set of cognitive domains, including theory of mind (ToM) (ability to understand and infer emotions) as one of the most prevalent in studies investigating sociocognitive alterations. ToM deficits potentially result in impairments in information processing, and the laterality of the brain injury may influence the level of impairment. Thus, different evidence suggests that functions related to social cognition may be lateralized to regions of the right brain hemisphere, with the potential to cause greater impairment in patients with lesions in this hemisphere. Objective: This research aims to investigate whether the laterality of the hemispheric lesion after CVA influences the performance in ToM tasks. Methodology: This is a cross-sectional study, where patients with a clinical diagnosis of CVA, age ≥18 years, without cognitive deficits suggestive by the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) were included. Participants underwent a single assessment using the Theory of Mind Task Battery (ToM TB). Afterwards, they were allocated into two groups according to the laterality of the brain injury, right hemisphere injury group (RHI) and left hemisphere injury group (LHE). Results: In general, the findings suggest that there was no difference between the groups analyzed LHD and LHE in relation to social cognition assessed by ToM TB (p>0.05), for analysis by item and total score of the battery of tasks. Conclusion: Regardless of the injured brain hemisphere, the findings of this study support a similar social cognitive profile between the groups. Therefore, the results have implications for exploring the formulation of interventions targeting changes in this domain of social cognition and reducing disability.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2682777 - ROBERTA DE OLIVEIRA CACHO
Interno - 1716016 - ENIO WALKER AZEVEDO CACHO
Externo à Instituição - GUSTAVO LUVIZUTTO - UFTM
Externo à Instituição - MARCOS HORTES NISIHARA CHAGAS - UFSCAR