Mood after Moderate and Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Prospective Cohort Study

Mood after Moderate and Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Prospective Cohort Study

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the course of mood and identify its determinants up to 3 years after moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). DESIGN Prospective cohort study. PATIENTS Patients hospitalised with moderate to severe TBI, who survived until hospital discharge. METHODS At 3, 6, 12, 18, 24, and 36 months post-injury, mood was assessed with the Wimbledon Self-Report Scale (WSRS) i...

Consonant accuracy after severe pediatric traumatic brain injury: a prospective cohort study.

PURPOSE The authors sought to describe longitudinal changes in Percentage of Consonants Correct-Revised (PCC-R) after severe pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI), to compare the odds of normal-range PCC-R in children injured at older and younger ages, and to correlate predictor variables and PCC-R outcomes. METHOD In 56 children injured between age 1 month and 11 years, PCC-R was calculated...

Moderate and Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

Prospective memory after moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury: a multinomial modeling approach.

OBJECTIVE Prospective memory (PM), which can be understood as the processes involved in realizing a delayed intention, is consistently found to be impaired after a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Although PM can be empirically dissociated from retrospective memory, it inherently involves both a prospective component (i.e., remembering that an action needs to be carried out) and retrospective comp...

cerebellar atrophy after moderate-to-severe pediatric traumatic brain injury.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Although the cerebellum has not attracted the same degree of attention as cortical areas and the hippocampus in traumatic brain injury (TBI) literature, there is limited structural and functional imaging evidence that the cerebellum is also vulnerable to insult. The cerebellum is emerging as part of a frontocerebellar system that, when disrupted, results in significant co...