Changes in Social Cognition in Dementia

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Author(s): Tiago Figueiredo (Cognus Institute for Research, Brazil)and Leonardo Caixeta (Federal University of Goiás, Brazil)
Copyright: 2024
Pages: 24
Source title: Advances in Neuroscience, Neuropsychiatry, and Neurology
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Cândida Lopes Alves (Federal University of Maranhão, Brazil), Katie Moraes Almondes (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil)and Gilberto Sousa Alves (Federal University of Maranhão, Brazil)
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-0851-6.ch010

Keywords: Medical Information Science Reference / Medicine & Healthcare / Neuroscience / Psychiatry and Mental Health

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Abstract

Social cognition is an umbrella term for the brain process underlying social behavior. Neurodegenerative dementia might affect the social cognition domains in different ways and degrees. Therefore, each type of dementia has a distinct profile of social cognitive impairments. This chapter presents a discussion about social cognition in healthy aging and in the most prevalent dementia subtypes, Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FDT). The available data about mentalizing, emotional contagion, and perception of social cues in AD and FTD variants are analyzed based on the correlation between behavioral and neuroimaging findings.

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