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. 2022 Apr 27;14:778093. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.778093

Table 7.

Summary of studies on social cognition in unspecific frontotemporal dementia.

References Design FTD patients (N) Mean age of FTD (S.D) HC (N) Mean age of HC (S.D) SC domains Assessment tools Results JBI
Bedoin et al. (2009) C-S 11 61.2 (3.2) 11 58.54 (5.3) EP Ad hoc test Patients with impairment in EP M
Zahn et al. (2009) C-S 29 61.3 (8.9) 15 61.5 (8.5) SP Ad hoc test Patients with impairment in SP L
Bediou et al. (2009) C-S 10 67.0 (7.0) 10 70.0 (6.0) EP Ad hoc test FTD worse than AD M
Formica et al. (2020) C-S 14 74.29 (4.68) N/A N/A ToM RMET; SET FTD worse than AD M
Russell et al. (2020) C-S 103 N/A 246 46 (12.8) ToM; EP FPT; FERT FTD worse than controls G

AD, Alzheimer Disease; CATS, Comprehensive Affect Testing System; C-S, Cross-sectional; E60, Ekman 60 task; EC, Ekman Caricatures; EM, Emotional Processing; FADT, Face Affect Discrimination Task; FAST, Facial Affect Selection test; FERT, Facial emotion recognition; FIDT, Face Identify Discrimination Task; FPT, Faux Pas test; FTD, Frontotemporal Dementia; G, Good; HC, Healthy Controls; IRI, Interpersonal Reactivity Index; JBI, Joanna Briggs Institute Critical Evaluation Checklists; L, Low; Lo, Longitudinal; LBD, Lewy Body Dementia; M, Moderate; mini-SEA, Mini-Social Cognition & Emotional Assessment; N/A, not available; nfvPPA, non-fluent variant PPA; PPA, Primary Progressive Aphasia; RMET, Reading the mind in the eyes test; SC, Social Cognition; SEA, Facial Emotion Recognition Test; SEQ, Socio-Emotional Questionnaire; SET, The Story-based Empathy Task; SP, Social Perception; svPPA, semantic variant PPA; TASIT, The Awareness of Social Inference Test; ToM, Theory of Mind.