Cognitive impairment affects 40–60% of patients with multiple sclerosis. It may be present
early in the course of the disease and has an impact on a patient's employability, social …

Cognitive, behavioural, and functional assessment is crucial in longitudinal studies of
neurodegenerative dementias (NDD). Central issues, such as the definition of the study …

Socioeconomic status (SES) negatively impacts cognitive and executive functioning in older
adults, yet its effects on socioemotional abilities have not been studied in this population …

Interoception (the sensing of inner-body signals) is a multi-faceted construct with major
relevance for basic and clinical neuroscience research. However, the neurocognitive …

The study of moral emotions (ie Schadenfreude and envy) is critical to understand the
ecological complexity of everyday interactions between cognitive, affective, and social …

A key symptom of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is difficulty interacting socially with others.
Social cognition problems in FTD include impaired emotion processing and theory of mind …

Relative sparing of episodic memory is a diagnostic criterion of behavioral variant
frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). However, increasing evidence suggests that bvFTD …

The use of social tasks in the neuropsychological assessment of the behavioral variant of
frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is at present not required by diagnostic guidelines, despite …

Metacognition (monitoring) of emotion recognition is fundamental for social interactions.
Correct recognition of and confidence in the emotional meaning inferred from others' faces …

Whether theory of mind (ToM) is preserved in Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains a
controversial subject. Recent studies have showed that performance on some ToM tests …