Social and Moral Cognition in Multiple Sclerosis

"The demographic questionnaire collects demographic information: gender, age, level of education, laterality, history of psychiatric or neurological disorders.~The moral judgment task consists in completing 20 vignettes of moral dilemmas. Cognitive disorders will be assessed using the Brief International Cognitive Assessment for Multiple Sclerosis (BICAMS) battery. If the patient has taken the BICAMS battery recently (less than 6 months), and with no change in pathology since then, the results of these tests will be used in this study.~Affective disorders will be assessed using the following tests:~* The Beck Depression Inventory-Fast Screen (BDI-FS) to assess the level of depression,~* State trait anxiety inventory-Y (STAI-Y) to assess anxiety,~* Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 (TAS-20)to assess alexithymia,~* The Empathy Quotient-8 (EQ-8) to assess participants' level of empathy,~* The Dot Probe Task to assess participants' emotional information processing style."

This questionnaire collects key information on the participant's pathology: clinical form, date of first symptoms, diagnosis, last attack, as well as latest EDSS and functional scores.

The MoCA is a screening tool for neurocognitive impairment, designed primarily to detect milder impairment. The MoCA is a short-answer questionnaire that includes a number of tasks to be completed by the individual. The items assessed are grouped into six subsections: short-term memory, visuospatial skills, executive functions, attention, concentration, working memory, language and orientation in time and space. The tests proposed are often more complex than those found in the mini-mental state examination (MMSE).