Assessing Emotion Recognition in Adolescents After Traumatic Brain Injury: A Neuropsychological Cohort Study_ Crimson Publishers

 Assessing Emotion Recognition in Adolescents After Traumatic Brain Injury: A Neuropsychological Cohort Study by Brenda Hussey- Gardner* in Research in Pediatrics & Neonatology_ The Journal of Pediatrics

 

Introduction
A recent Saudi study [1] showed that TBI is the most common pediatric trauma and could be linked with harmful consequences. Deficits in the ability to evaluate emotional information are implicated in TBI. Researchers indicate that lasting emotion recognition deficits are common among adolescents who have suffered TBI [2]. Although adolescents who have TBI are generally discharged following rehabilitation hospitalization, some adolescents need additional rehabilitation interventions in the post-injury period, including outpatient services [3]. Studies showed that more than half of TBI adolescents are at risk of presenting with emotion recognition difficulties.

Preschoolers and elementary school students were mostly affected by TBI consequences in Saudi Arabia [1]. Survivors of adolescents TBI commonly result in emotional, behavioral and cognitive deficits [2]. However, emotion recognition deficits following TBI become obvious at age of adolescent hood and above [4]. Parents rate behavior disturbance and emotion changes as the most difficult and persistent problem following TBI. Emotion recognition requires the quick processing of motivations and emotional reactions of others. Essential emotional stimuli are conveyed by facial and eye expression [5]. Assessing adolescent’s abilities to understand emotion from facial expressions indicates that such skills are subject to developmental improvement mainly among adolescents with TBI

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