Publications by authors named "Millena Vieira Brandao Moura"
Article Synopsis
- New studies show that understanding how people think and feel is super important for helping with mental health diagnoses and treatments.
- Researchers from 12 countries looked at how a person's nationality affects their social thinking skills, finding that where someone is from can really matter.
- The results suggest we need to change how we study and help people with social thinking abilities to make sure it works for everyone, no matter where they live.
Objective: To investigate the accuracy of the Social and Emotional Assessment-short version (Mini-SEA) to differentiate subgroups of behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) defined according to executive performance.
Methods: bvFTD (n = 21), AD (n = 20), and healthy controls (HC, n = 23) underwent the Mini-SEA, comprising the Facial Emotion Recognition Test (FERT) and the faux-pas test. AD and bvFTD patients were classified according to their performance in the Frontal Assessment Battery into dysexecutive and nondysexecutive subgroups.
Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) and behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) share cognitive and behavioral symptoms, such as apathy. Social cognition measurements are useful in distinguishing bvFTD from AD, but their accuracies may be affected by apathy.
Objective: To investigate whether social cognition measurements can distinguish bvFTD from either apathetic or non-apathetic AD patients.