Social Cognition: Developmental aspects and clinical relevance for patients with acquired brain injuries and psychiatric disorders

Patrizia Thoma is an adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Director of the Neuropsychological Therapy Center at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. She has been licensed as a state-certified psychotherapist (specialized in CBT) and as a clinical neuropsychologist by the Chamber of Psychotherapists. Part of her clinical work is devoted to the training of the next generation of neuropsychological psychotherapists. For the past 15 years her main research interest has been on social cognition in psychiatric and neurological disoders and she has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and books on this topic. Part of her work was carried out at the University College London.