Are there people with other kinds of brain-based disorders who might be affected by problems with social judgment and appropriate social behaviour?
Yes, there are many conditions where deficits in social judgment and appropriate social behaviour are problems: • Dementia, especially a rare type called frontotemporal dementia, which affects some of the same brain regions that are commonly damaged in more severe TBI’s. • Brain tumors could affect social functioning, depending on the location of the tumor, or areas affected when the tumor is removed. • Schizophrenia In fact, there was an article published in the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society this year (2009) showing that objective measures of social competency did a better job of predicting community functioning for people with schizophrenia than did cognitive measures. • Attention Deficit Disorder (A.D.D.) Even people with A.D.D. might have some social skill issues, if they’re not paying attention to what other people are doing or saying, or if they act impulsively. • Autism and Asperger syndrome. Obviously, deficits in the social realm are one of the defini
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