Page No.254-259
Sunila John, Veena S Ramkumar, Ceana M Paul, and B. Rajashekhar
Manipal University, Manipal, Karnataka
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Theory of mind (ToM) or the ability to think about other people’s mental states to
understand and predict others’ behaviour is a part of social cognition. The social
and communicative impairment is a natural consequence of ToM deficit. Those who
have sustained a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) have been found to demonstrate
difficulties in everyday social interactions and communications. The presence of
these difficulties, which are thought to be associated with ToM deficits, raises the
question of whether patients with TBI have impairment in ToM. The present study
investigates ToM in eight adult subjects with frontal lobe damage, following mild TBI
across first and second order tasks of ToM in Malayalam. The results add to the
growing evidence that more attention should be focused on employing additional
tests of ToM during evaluation and address these deficits during the management
of communication and social deficits.
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