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Emotions and Their Cognitive Control in Children With Cerebellar Tumors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2010

TALAR HOPYAN ,
SUZANNE LAUGHLIN  and
MAUREEN DENNIS
TALAR HOPYAN*
Affiliation:
Program in Neurosciences and Mental Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Department of Otolaryngology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
SUZANNE LAUGHLIN
Affiliation:
Program in Neurosciences and Mental Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Department Diagnostic Imaging, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
MAUREEN DENNIS
Affiliation:
Program in Neurosciences and Mental Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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*Correspondence and reprint requests to: Talar Hopyan, Program in Neurosciences and Mental Health, Department of Otolaryngology, The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X8, Canada. Email: t.hopyan@utoronto.ca
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Abstract

A constellation of deficits, termed the cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome (CCAS), has been reported following acquired cerebellar lesions. We studied emotion identification and the cognitive control of emotion in children treated for acquired tumors of the cerebellum. Participants were 37 children (7–16 years) treated for cerebellar tumors (19 benign astrocytomas (AST), 18 malignant medulloblastomas (MB), and 37 matched controls (CON). The Emotion Identification Task investigated recognition of happy and sad emotions in music. In two cognitive control tasks, we investigated whether children could identify emotion in situations in which the emotion in the music and the emotion in the lyrics was either congruent or incongruent. Children with cerebellar tumors identified emotion as accurately and quickly as controls (p > .05), although there was a significant interaction of emotions and group (p < .01), with the MB group performing less accurately identifying sad emotions, and both cerebellar tumor groups were impaired in the cognitive control of emotions (p < .01). The fact that childhood acquired cerebellar tumors disrupt cognitive control of emotion rather than emotion identification provides some support for a model of the CCAS as a disorder, not so much of emotion as of the regulation of emotion by cognition. (JINS, 2010, 16, 1027–1038.)

Keywords

CerebellumBrain tumorsCerebellar cognitive affective syndrome (CCAS)MusicStroopEmotion Regulation
Type
Research Articles
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Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , Volume 16 , Issue 6 , November 2010 , pp. 1027 - 1038
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Copyright © The International Neuropsychological Society 2010

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