The Emotion Builder: An Intervention for Emotional Deficits After Brain Injury

This is a pilot study to examine how subjects with TBI feel about the virtual reality program
as a treatment and to assess the effectiveness of the virtual reality program at increasing
subjects' awareness and understanding of emotions.

Inclusion Criteria:

- TBI (injury due to an external physical force);

- Moderate to severe TBI, defined either by74 Glasgow Coma Score at time of injury
(≤12), or post-traumatic amnesia (≥1 day), or loss of consciousness (≥30 minutes);

- ≥1 year post-injury;

- between 18-65 years old;

- Have a moderate to high alexithymia score (≥52) on the TAS-2070 at screening.

Exclusion criteria:

- Diagnosed with pre-morbid neurological disorders (e.g. stroke, autism, alzheimer's
disease, Parkinson's disease);

- Formerly diagnosed with a developmental disability;

- Pre-morbid diagnosis of major psychiatric disorders (e.g. schizophrenia);

- Unable to follow directions;

- Uncorrected visual or hearing impairments that would prevent sufficient task
participation;

- No access to reliable transportation.