Citation

Levin HS, Wilde EA, Hanten G, Li X, Chu ZD, Vasquez AC, Cook L, Yallampalli R, Hunter JV. Dev. Neuropsychol. 2011; 36(3): 273-287.

Affiliation

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/87565641.2010.549885

PMID

21462007

PMCID

PMC3250061

Abstract

We studied social cognition in 49 children 3 months after moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and in 39 children with orthopedic injury (OI). Children underwent diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and a mental attribution task showing two triangles. Mental state attributions increased when one triangle reacted to intentions of the other, but less so in the TBI than the OI group. DTI identified injury to white matter microstructure in the TBI group, but the relation of DTI to mental attributions did not differ between groups. Moderate to severe TBI produces white matter disconnections that may affect social cognitive networks.

Language: en