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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Anesthesiology

Background:

  • Cognitive dysfunction is a known complication of anesthesia and surgery.
  • Social cognition dysfunction (SCD) has recently been empirically evidenced post-anesthesia and surgery.
  • Emotion recognition is a critical aspect of SCD with clinical implications.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate emotion recognition deficits in patients undergoing cardiac surgery.
  • To examine the impact of anesthesia and surgery on biological motion (BM) based emotion and action perception.
  • To confirm the existence of SCD in cardiac surgery patients.

Main Methods:

  • Evaluated 60 adult patients (40-72 years old) undergoing cardiac surgery.
  • Utilized a biological motion (BM) recognition task before and after anesthesia and surgery.
  • Assessed patients' ability to perceive actions and emotions from BM stimuli.

Main Results:

  • Action perception remained intact in patients post-cardiac surgery.
  • 18.3% of patients demonstrated deficits in emotion perception after surgery.
  • Findings support the occurrence of SCD following anesthesia and surgery.

Conclusions:

  • Cardiac surgery and anesthesia can lead to social cognition dysfunction, specifically affecting emotion recognition.
  • Biological motion perception is a sensitive measure for detecting SCD post-surgery.
  • Further research is warranted to understand and mitigate SCD after surgical procedures.