@article{ref1,
title="Self-awareness after brain injury: relation with emotion recognition and effects of treatment",
journal="Brain impairment",
year="2017",
author="Lamberts, K. F. and Fasotti, L. and Boelen, D. H. E. and Spikman, J. M.",
volume="18",
number="1",
pages="130-137",
abstract="Self-awareness is often impaired after acquired brain injury (ABI) and this hampers rehabilitation, in general: unrealistic reports by patients about their functioning and poor motivation and compliance with treatment. We evaluated a self-awareness treatment that was part of a treatment protocol on executive dysfunction (Spikman, Boelen, Lamberts, Brouwer, & Fasotti, 2010). A total of 63 patients were included, aged 17-70, suffering non-progressive ABI, and minimum time post-onset of 3 months. Self-awareness was measured by comparing the patient's Dysexecutive Questionnaire (Wilson, Alderman, Burgess, Emslie, & Evans, 1996) score with that of an independent other. As emotion recognition is associated with self-awareness and influences the effect of rehabilitation treatment, we assessed this function using the Facial Expressions of Emotion-Stimuli and Tests (Young, Perrett, Calder, Sprengelmeyer, & Ekman, 2002). <br><br>RESULTS showed that patients in the experimental treatment group (n = 29) had better self-awareness after training than control patients (n = 34). Moreover, our results confirmed that the level of self-awareness before treatment was related to emotion recognition. Hence, self-awareness can improve after neuropsychological treatment fostering self-monitoring. Since neuropsychological treatment involves social learning, impairments in social cognition should be taken into account before starting and during treatment.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1443-9646",
doi="10.1017/BrImp.2016.28",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/BrImp.2016.28"
}