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This study examined characteristics of patients with post-traumatic brain injury fatigue (PTBIF) in order to assess characteristics of those whose fatigue persisted as compared to those whose fatigue resolved. The characteristics reported included: level of disability, sleep quality, mood, and community participation, as well as level ...
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This study reported on whether a specific, genetically variable neurotransmission pathway in the brain could provide information about prognosis for recovery from traumatic brain injury (TBI). In particular, the researchers developed hypotheses about gene variants within this pathway and their potential relationship to problems thinking after ...
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This study tested if severity of head and extracranial injuries (ECI) after traumatic brain injury (TBI) is related to suicidal ideation (SI) or suicide attempt (SA). The study also looked at what people with TBI with reported SI or SA have in common.
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This study tested a mobile app as a way to measure depression and anxiety for people with TBI. This could allow new ways to measure mood with smartphones for people with TBI. The app was designed to repeatedly ask questions about emotional and physical health to ...
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Difficulty sleeping and problems with attention, memory, and understanding and processing new information, called cognitive function, are common occurrences after suffering a traumatic brain injury (TBI). A patient suffering from these types of problems may experience significant loss of their ability to function. This study examined ...
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Understanding how to treat traumatic brain injury (TBI) is difficult because there are so many possible outcomes. Even when patients have a similar injury, they may experience wide differences in behavior, cognition, and emotion. One way to predict individual TBI outcomes is to examine genes that ...
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Researchers asked if genetic differences in traumatic brain injury (TBI) survivors had an effect on their cognitive recovery. Researchers tested TBI survivors’ dopamine genotype and other factors related to cognitive performance. Specifically, the researchers asked if genetic variations near the dopamine type 2 receptor gene [within ...
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Multiple comorbidities that affect recovery is a real concern for aging individuals with traumatic brain injuries (TBI). The aim of this study was to detail the most common co-occurring comorbid conditions among adults fifty years and older with TBI.
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The three most commonly ...
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The purpose of this study was to assess connections between cognitive impairment, (eg. abnormalities in the ability to process information quickly, poor memory or concentration), and post-traumatic brain injury depression (PTD) in the first year following a traumatic brain injury (TBI).
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Easy to use and accurate tools for predicting long-term functional prognosis are needed for patients of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and their families. This study aims to build a practical decision tree using a collection of clinical variables to predict Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS) levels at ...
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This study aims to determine whether rehospitalization in the first two years after a moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) is associated with poorer societal participation at five years post-TBI.
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This study found that rehospitalization during the first two years after TBI ...
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This study aims to explore which psychosocial and demographic variables, in combination with the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), a measure of severity of traumatic brain injury (TBI), are predictive of TBI functional outcomes five to fifteen years post-injury.
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The findings were somewhat surprising ...
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Monoamine transporters are protein structures that help regulate the levels of neurotransmitters that send signals to the nerve structure. Dopamine and serotonin are examples of compounds that send signals throughout the body. They are important in regulating a variety of brain activities including memory, executive functioning ...
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) survivors are typically classified by injury severity using a measure that relies heavily on level of consciousness. The most common measure is the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) and is very helpful in planning early treatment. It is often used to establish prognosis, ...
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Memory impairment is common for individuals with traumatic brain injuries (TBI). The Everyday Memory Questionnaire (EMQ) was designed to measure everyday memory failures in individuals with TBI. Though the EMQ has demonstrated clinical effectiveness through distinguishing between individuals with TBI and orthopedic controls, its factor structure ...
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Differentiating genuine traumatic brain injury (TBI) from faked neurocognitive impairment is essential to correctly provide resources in legal and healthcare systems. This study assessed the strategies used by healthy adults who were coached to simulate traumatic brain injury (TBI) during neuropsychological evaluation.
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There is strong evidence that when clinicians use behavioral observations and information obtained through clinical interviews and medical records they do not predict the validity of the performance well and are particularly prone to false-positive errors in classification. It is important to be able to distinguish ...
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The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of nativity and residential characteristics on productive activity among Hispanics at one year after traumatic brain injury (TBI).
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Among foreign-born individuals with TBI, those living in an area with a higher proportion of ...
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The purpose of this study was to assess the association between post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE), occurring during the first 2 years post-injury, and frequency of mental health outcomes (depression and/or anxiety) during that same time period in a group of individuals with moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) ...
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This study investigated the contribution of race/ethnicity to retention in traumatic brain injury (TBI) research at one to two years post-injury.
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This study found that retention rates one to two years post-TBI were significantly lower for Hispanic participants (85.2%) than for white (91.8%) ...