<!-- TITLE: Patient Methodologies --> <!-- SUBTITLE: for the study of personality and social processes - Jennifer Beer --> + Less expensive, more accessible, than neuroimaging + Wider range of paradigms possible, without physical & temporal limits of neuroimaging --- + Rely on brain damage resulting from trauma or disorders --- + Categorization - how to distinguish the patient and control populations correctly + Capability - modifications necessary to make sure the patients can complete the experiments + Comorbidity - confounding conditions associated with the patient population + Availability - some patient populations are simply rare + Control - what types of control populations are needed? --- + orbitofrontal damage + poor self-regulation skills + frequently disclose too much info, assume others share their perspective, + resolve interpersonal dillemas poorly + impairs self-conscious emotions, but not other emotions + amygdala damage + can't recognize emotive faces, but can *make* emotive faces --- + Brain injury from trauma, stroke, or dementia + (rare) high-speed collision can cause orbitofrontal damage, brain mashing against eye-socket ridges + (rare) frontotemporal dementia + Altzheimer dementia + Depression + dysfunction in limbic areas + Autism spectrum disorders + affects limbic structures + theory of mind typically impaired