Right hemisphere damage: Communication processing in adults evaluated by the Brazilian Protocole MEC - Bateria MAC

Right-brain-damaged individuals may present discursive, pragmatic, lexical-semantic and/or prosodic disorders. To verify the effect of right hemisphere damage on communication processing evaluated by the Brazilian version of the Protocole Montréal d'Évaluation de la Communication (Montreal Comm...

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Published in:Dementia & neuropsychologia 2007-09, Vol.1 (3), p.266-275
Main Authors: Fonseca, Rochele Paz, Fachel, Jandyra Maria Guimarães, Chaves, Márcia Lorena Fagundes, Liedtke, Francéia Veiga, Parente, Maria Alice de Mattos Pimenta
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
brain damage
CLINICAL NEUROLOGY
communication
GERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY
HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES
MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL
neuropsychology
NURSING
Original
PSYCHIATRY
PSYCHOLOGY
right hemisphere
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Summary:Right-brain-damaged individuals may present discursive, pragmatic, lexical-semantic and/or prosodic disorders. To verify the effect of right hemisphere damage on communication processing evaluated by the Brazilian version of the Protocole Montréal d'Évaluation de la Communication (Montreal Communication Evaluation Battery) - Bateria Montreal de Avaliação da Comunicação, Bateria MAC, in Portuguese. A clinical group of 29 right-brain-damaged participants and a control group of 58 non-brain-damaged adults formed the sample. A questionnaire on sociocultural and health aspects, together with the Brazilian MAC Battery was administered. Significant differences between the clinical and control groups were observed in the following MAC Battery tasks: conversational discourse, unconstrained, semantic and orthographic verbal fluency, linguistic prosody repetition, emotional prosody comprehension, repetition and production. Moreover, the clinical group was less homogeneous than the control group. A right-brain-damage effect was identified directly, on three communication processes: discursive, lexical-semantic and prosodic processes, and indirectly, on pragmatic process.
ISSN:1980-5764
1980-5764
DOI:10.1590/S1980-57642008DN10300008