Published reports Characteristics of the patient group Association with cognitive variables Association with emotional and affective variables Apperly et al. [32 ] 12 ABI (unspecified severity) Executive function Not investigated Bara et al. [38 ] 13 sABI Comprehension of irony, pragmatic communication (n.s.) Not investigated Bibby and McDonald [22 ] 15 sTBI Working memor Not investigated Bivona et al. [28 ] 28 sTBI Executive function Emotional responsiveness, Empathy (n.s.) Bivona et al. [29 ] 20 sTBI Executive functions (n.s.) Alexithymia (n.s.) Bosco et al. [39 ] 30 moderate-to-severe TBI Executive functions (n.s.) Not investigated Channon and Crawford [31 ] 7 ABI, 16 vascular, 5 cancer, 2 abscess, 1 sclerosis (unspecified severity) Executive function Not investigated Channon and Crawford [40 ] 10 sABI, 10 vascular (unspecified severity) Comprehension of irony; Not investigated Channon et al. [41 ] 19 sABI Comprehension of sarcas Not investigated De Sousa et al. [37 ] 21 sTBI Not investigated Reduced psychophysiological reacti- vity during emotional stimulatio Grattan and Eslinger [42 ] 50 ABI, 27 infarction, 5 surgical resection of tumor, 8 aneurysm rupture, 10 closed head injury (unspecified severity) Not investigated Apath Griffin et al. [43 ] 11 vascular ABI (unspecified severity) Executive functions, mentalistic attribution ability, humour rating (n.s.) Emotion perception (n.s.) Havet-Thomassin et al. [44 ] 17 sTBI Executive functions (n.s.) Not investigated Henry et al. [33 ] 16 mild-to-moderate TBI Executive function Ability to recognise facial expressions related to emotions (n.s.) Honan et al. [45 ] 25 sTBI High Working Memor Not investigated Martin and McDonald [46 ] 16 TBI (unspecified severity) Inferential reasonin Not investigated Martin and McDonald [47 ] 21 ABI (unspecified severity) Executive functions; Irony comprehension (n.s.) Not investigated McDonald and Flanagan [48 ] 34 sTBI Detection of irony and lies (n.s.) Ability to recognise emotional expressions of faces and voices (n.s.) McDonald and Pearce [34 ] 9 ABI, 1 vascular (unspecified severity) Executive functions (data applicable only to a sub-sampl Ability to recognise facial expressions related to emotion McDonald et al [49 ] 31 sTBI Difficulty understanding insincere comments such as sarcas Emotion perception (n.s.) Milders et al. [50 ] 17 moderate-to-severe TBI Cognitive flexibility; Understanding Intentions and Social Situations (n.s.) Ability to recognize emotional expressions in faces and voices (n.s.) Milders et al. [51 ] 33 moderate-to-severe TBI Executive function Not investigated Milders et al. [26 ] 33 mild-to-severe TBI Cognitive flexibility (n.s.) Ability to recognise emotional expressions in faces and voices (n.s.) Muller et al. [27 ] 15 sTBI Executive functions (n.s.) Not investigated Neumann and coll. [52 ] 60 moderate-to-severe TBI Not investigated Alexithymi Njomboro et al. [53 ] 49 ABI, 24 cerebrovascular accident, 14 head injury, 5 anoxia, 6 herpes simplex encephalitis Executive functions (n.s.) Apathy and perception of facial expressions of emotion (n. s.) Rowe et al. [54 ] 31 ABI (unspecified severity) Executive functions (n.s.) Not investigated Shamay-Tsoory et al. [35 ] 33 ABI, 6 vascular, 5 meningioma Not investigated Emotional variables of the stimul Shaw et al. [25 ] 19 ABI (unspecified severity) Not investigated Ability to recognise and evaluate facial expressions related to emotions (n.s.) Spikman et al. [55 ] 28 moderate-to-severe ABI Executive functions (n.s.) Relationship between ToM and discrimination of emotion Turkstra et al. [56 ] 58 moderate-to-severe TBI Working Memor Not investigated Williams and Wood (2009) 64 sTBI Not investigated Relationship between reduced empathy and alexithymi
