Abstract

MIELES TOLOZA, Ismael Leonardo et al. Olfactory alterations and deficits in the capacity of emotional recognition in patients with cranioencephalic trauma. Psychol. av. discip. [online]. 2022, vol.16, n.2, pp.91-104.  Epub Sep 19, 2023. ISSN 1900-2386.  https://doi.org/10.21500/19002386.6170.

The general objective of this study was to "identify the association between emotional recognition and olfactory alterations in a group of patients with SCD". It was developed under a quantitative approach with nonexperimental design, in which 10 patients with a history of moderate and severe cranioencephalic trauma were evaluated along with 10 control participants without brain damage. For the variables sex, age and schooling the results were very similar among the groups, with average ages of 26 years, the population was predominantly male and most had higher education. In the tests of emotional recognition the control group achieved a superior performance to the group of cases. In addition, the control group achieved better capacity in olfactory tests than the group of cases. A statistically significant correlation was found between the emotional recognition results and the olfactory variable in the group of cases, which allows the identification of the role that topographic and functional brain system structures may be involved in processing; In turn, it opens prospects for future studies especially to intervention models in clinical groups affected by head trauma.

Keywords : Emotions; faces; smell; emotional recognition.

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