Social cognition and behavior in a sample of Colombian patients with the frontal variant of frontotemporal dementia (fv-FTD)
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National University of Colombia, Neuropsychological Assessment Service, Colombia
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Javeriana University, Memory Clinic, Colombia
There is an increasing interest in the investigation of social cognition and emotion in patients with FTD since behavioral changes and executive dysfunction characterizes this condition. Social cognition, subsuming cognitive processes as the representation to oneself of others mental states (Theory of Mind), sensibility to the social normativity and behavior regulation according to the social context, has been associated to the activity of brain structures impaired in the frontotemporal dementia (prefrontal and dorsomedial cortex), mainly in its frontal type (fv-FTD). In this study, we aimed to characterize the neuropsychological profile and performance in social cognition tasks of a sample of 8 Colombian patients with fv-FTD from the Memory Clinic of San Ignacio Hospital in Bogota, compared to a group of 8 healthy persons, and to search for any relation between their performance in executive functions and social cognition tasks. Results show vf-DFT patients, have a low level performance in tasks of language (verbal fluency), episodic memory (long term free and clue recall, and recognition), attention and visuo-constructional functions compared to controls. Patients also showed low performance in all tasks of executive functions except in the divided attention task ‘TMT-B’ and in social cognition tasks (Faux Pas and Mind in the eyes test). There are multiple significant associations between patients’ performance in executive functions and social cognition tasks; this confirms the model of social cognition of Eslinger et al. (2007) which states that the social knowing and executive functions lead the interpersonal decision making.
Conference:
The 20th Annual Rotman Research Institute Conference, The frontal lobes, Toronto, Canada, 22 Mar - 26 Mar, 2010.
Presentation Type:
Poster Presentation
Topic:
Neurologic
Citation:
Palacio
K,
Montañés
P,
Matallana
D and
Reyes
P
(2010). Social cognition and behavior in a sample of Colombian patients with the frontal variant of frontotemporal dementia (fv-FTD).
Conference Abstract:
The 20th Annual Rotman Research Institute Conference, The frontal lobes.
doi: 10.3389/conf.fnins.2010.14.00156
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Received:
01 Jul 2010;
Published Online:
01 Jul 2010.
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Correspondence:
K. Palacio, National University of Colombia, Neuropsychological Assessment Service, Bogotá, Colombia, kenypalacio@gmail.com