The goal of this observational study is to learn about social cognition and risky behaviour in patients with young-onset dementia (YOD). The investigators want to * Examine differences in performance on social cognition test and measures of risky behaviour between behavioural variant YOD patients, patients with frontal brain injury, non-behavioural YOD patients and healthy controls. * Examine if there is a relation between social cognition tests and measures of risky behaviour. Participants will be administered a neuropsychological assessment including social cognition measures and patients will complete a driving simulator task in which risky behaviour will be elicited.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
140
Neuropsychological assessment consisting of test measuring general cognitive abilities and social cognition. Driving simulator task measuring risk-taking.
Social cognitive performance
Social cognition in bvYOD, compared to non-bvYOD, patients with frontal brain injury and healthy controls
Time frame: 2024-2027
Association between social cognition and risky decision-making
Association between several aspect of social cognition (i.e. emotion recognition, empathy, theory of mind, emotion experience) and risk-taking behaviour.
Time frame: 2024-2027
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