Cerebrovascular disease - neuropsychological effects - changes in social cognition
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What sort of changes regarding social cognition are found with cerebrovascular diseases?
- Problems emotion recognition
- impairments understanding social situatios or regulation of interpersonal behavior
Most of the time emotional functioning is affected because of a stroke in the right hemisphere. Both hemispheres play a part in emotional well-being but in different ways, what are the differences between both hemispheres?
- Left hemisphere
- inhibition and control of emotions
- right hemisphere
- origin of emotions
What behavioral differences can be noticed after frontal lobe damage?
- Excessive behavior
- easily irritated
- inappropriate emotional expressions
- lack of behavior
- apathy
- loss of initiative
- blunted affect
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What behavioral differences are found after damage of the cerebellum?
- Blunted affect
- disinhibited behavior
- motor and cognitive problems
- pseudobulbar (cerebellar) syndrome
- pathological crying and laughter
- bilateral lesion corticobulbar tract
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