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  Dr. Maria Mouratidis is is a licensed neuropsychologist and currently the command consultant and subject matter expert for Traumatic Brain Injury and Psychological Health at the National Naval Medical Center. This is BrainLine's exclusive interview with Dr. Mouratidis recorded on September 17th, 2008. Transcript of the video here.
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A brief summary of current research.

Training emotional processing in persons with brain injury

Radice-Neumann, D, Zupan, B, Tomita, M, and Willer, B (2009). Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, Vol 24 (5), pp 313-323.

Researchers examined the effectiveness of two interventions for different aspects of emotion-processing deficits — recognizing emotions on a person’s face and emotional inference from written stories. The study participants benefited from each type of intervention in different, but measureable ways. More research is needed; however, the measureable improvements in various aspects of emotional processing using clinically practical interventions is promising.

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