“…With regard to strokes (Braun, Traue, Frisch, Deighton & Kessler, 2005;Blonder, Pettigrew & Kryscio, 2012;Cooper et al,2014), lesions in the right hemisphere are more associated with this type of difficulties (Mandal, Tandon & Ashtana, 1991;Kucharska-Pietura, Phillips, Gernand & David, 2003;Yuvaraj, Murugapan, Norlina, Sundaraj & Khairiyan, 2013). Changes in the emotional recognition capacity are equally common in TBI (Spell & Frank, 2000;Milders, Fuchs & Crawford, 2003;Green, Turner & Thompson, 2004;Crocker & McDonald, 2005;Waats & Douglas, 2006;, Zupan, Babbage & Willer, 2007;Ietswaart, Milders, Crawford, Currie & Scott, 2007;Milders, Ietswaart, Crawford & Currie, 2008;Knox & Douglas, 2009;Babbage et al, 2011;Martins et al 2011;Rosenberg, McDonald, Dethier, Kessels & Westbrook, 2014). It is estimated that about 34% of patients with TBI evaluated present deficits in emotional recognition regardless of the type of trauma (Zupan, Babbage, Neumann & Willer, 2014).…”