The way people experience or express emotions may change after a traumatic brain injury (TBI). While this can be distressing for family members and friends, many strategies can help manage these emotional concerns after TBI.
What are some possible behavior changes?
People who have a moderate or severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) may have changes in their behavior. People with a TBI and their families encounter some common behaviors:
Problems managing emotions. People with a TBI may have a sudden change in mood; they also may have ...
How common are sleep problems following a TBI?
Many people who have brain injuries suffer from sleep disturbances. Not sleeping well can increase or worsen depression, anxiety, fatigue, irritability, and one's sense of well-being. It can also lead to poor work performance and traffic or workplace accidents. A review of sleep ...
Background: OSA is prevalent during a time of critical neural repair after traumatic brain injury (TBI). The diagnostic utility of existing sleep studies is needed to inform clinical management during acute recovery from TBI.
Research Question: This study aimed to evaluate the non-inferiority and diagnostic accuracy of a portable level 3 ...
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To compare OSA, demographic, and TBI characteristics across the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) and Centers for Medicare and Medicare (CMS) scoring rules in moderate to severe TBI undergoing inpatient neurorehabilitation.
METHODS: This is a secondary analysis from a prospective clinical trial of sleep apnea at six TBI ...
OBJECTIVE: To determine the diagnostic sensitivity and specificity and comparative effectiveness of traditional sleep apnea screening tools in traumatic brain injury (TBI) neurorehabilitation admissions.
DESIGN: Prospective diagnostic comparative effectiveness trial of sleep apnea screening tools relative to the criterion standard, attended level 1 polysomnography including encephalography.
SETTING: Six TBI Model System Inpatient ...
What is the study about?
Recent work has highlighted that people who have sustained moderate to severe traumatic brain injury often have sleep disturbance partially due to the presence of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a disorder resulting in the blockage of the airway while sleeping. People with OSA have disrupted sleep ...
What is the study about?
This study aims to examine the utility of common screening tools for sleep apnea (a disorder of interrupted breathing while sleeping) by examining how they compare to one another. These are tools used during inpatient rehabilitation for individuals with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). ...
What is the study about?
Individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) are at an increased risk for developing chronic health conditions (i.e., diabetes, heart disease, hypertension). Because of this, it is especially important that individuals with TBI maintain a healthy lifestyle, which can be difficult given the everyday challenges associated with ...
What is the study about?
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 ...
It’s common for people with a traumatic brain injury to have trouble sleeping. This comic includes information about sleep problems after TBI and how to improve your sleep.
Sleep wake cycles may be affected by damage to certain parts of the brain. Because of this, people with TBI may have trouble ...
What are irritability, anger, and aggression and how can you recognize them?
Irritability is an emotional state in which a person has a short temper and is easily annoyed or angered. As a result, small things can lead to harsh reactions (for example, snapping at family or friends). This is most ...
Objective: To investigate the relationship of 2 health-related quality-of-life (QOL) item banks (Emotional Suppression and Caregiver Vigilance), developed for caregivers of service members/veterans with traumatic brain injury (TBI), to caregivers' positive and negative affect.
Setting: Community.
Participants: One hundred sixty-five caregivers of service members/veterans with TBI.
Design: Retrospective database analysis.
Main measures: TBI-CareQOL Emotional ...
Psychological distress is common in persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI) but treatments remain underdeveloped. This randomized controlled trial of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) was designed to address this gap. Ninety-three persons with medically-documented complicated mild to severe TBI, normal-to-mildly impaired memory, and clinically significant psychological distress in the ...
What is the study about?
This study aims to examine the effectiveness of the Therapeutic Couples Intervention (TCI) on caregiver needs and burden after brain injury. TCI is an individually-administered couples intervention (a therapist works with one partner at a time) that focuses on improvement in adjustment and communication. Traumatic brain ...
What is the study about?
This project aims to develop a case definition and diagnostic criteria for post-traumatic confusional state (PTCS) following traumatic brain injury (TBI). The study describes clinical findings that establish a diagnosis of PTCS. Second, the study presents criteria for describing recovery from severe states of altered consciousness, ...
What is the study about?
This study investigated how resilience at 3 or 6 months following traumatic brain injury predicted quality of life outcomes of patients at 1 and 2 years after injury.
What did the study find?
The authors found that higher resilience scores predicted greater satisfaction with life, lower anxiety and ...
What is the study about?
There is evidence that individuals with traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are at a higher risk for chronic health problems. The aim of this study was to investigate the occurrence of both medical and psychiatric comorbidities that appeared before and up to 10 years following TBI requiring ...