Chapter 1
Introduction to social cognition
Skye McDonald and Fiona Kumfor
Chapter 2
Research methodologies, brain correlates, cross-cultural perspectives
Fiona Kumfor and Skye McDonald
Chapter 3
Impact of early brain insult on the development of social competence
Vicki Anderson, Mardee Greenham, Nicholas P. Ryan and Miriam Beauchamp
Chapter 4
Social cognition in Autism Spectrum Disorder and neurogenetic syndromes
Alice Maier, Nicholas P Ryan, Anita Chisholm and Jonathan M Payne
Chapter 5
Disorders of social cognition in adults with acquired brain injury
Travis Wearne, Michelle Kelly and Skye McDonald
Chapter 6
Social cognition in psychiatric disorders
Amy Pinkham
Chapter 7
Social cognition in dementia syndromes
Stephanie Wong and Fiona Kumfor
Chapter 8
Social cognition in neurodegenerative diseases: Huntington’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease and Multiple Sclerosis
Katie Osborne Crowley, Cynthia Honan and Helen Genova
Chapter 9
Assessing Social Cognition in adults
Michelle Kelly, Skye McDonald and Amy Pinkham
Chapter 10
Assessing social cognition in children
Louise Crowe, Simone Darling and Jennifer Chow
Chapter 11
Remediating social cognition
Joke Spikman, Herma J Westerhof and Anneli Cassel
Acknowledgements
Biography
Skye McDonald is a world leader in understanding social cognitive disorders after brain injury and has published 200 peer-reviewed journal articles on this topic. Her interests span theory development, the development of ecologically valid assessments and the development of remediation and intervention programs.
