TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Self-awareness after brain injury: relation with emotion recognition and effects of treatment
JO  - Brain impairment
A1  - Lamberts, K. F.
A1  - Fasotti, L.
A1  - Boelen, D. H. E.
A1  - Spikman, J. M.
SP  - 130
EP  - 137
VL  - 18
IS  - 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1443-9646
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/BrImp.2016.28
ID  - ref1
ER  -