What is the study about?
Researchers examined how education level is related to cognitive status in people with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Cognitive problems, such as slower processing speed, poor working memory, and memory loss are common after TBI. The study tested the cognitive reserve hypothesis, which proposes that greater lifetime ...
Our featured video and brief video clips show the impact of traumatic brain injury (TBI) on depression. Brandon Blake and Michelle Kauffman share how they worked with TBI Model System researchers to address challenges they faced with depression after experiencing a TBI.
What is the study about?
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 ...
This is a part of the Hot Topic podcast series from the Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center on TBI and Depression. Brandon Blake and Michelle Kauffman share how they worked with TBI Model System researchers to address challenges they faced with depression after experiencing a TBI.
Brandon Blake: You know, my ...
Objective
Identify determinants to chronic pain healthcare for persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI) informed
by an Access to Care Framework. Findings related to the Access Framework’s core domains of identifying a
need, perceptions of the need, and seeking healthcare are reported.
Design
Descriptive, qualitative study.
Results
For the overall sample,
14 facilitators and 6 barriers were endorsed ...
Pain is an unpleasant sensation that can range from mild to severe. It is usually considered chronic when it lasts more than three months. Many people with TBI have chronic pain at some time or another. This comic helps to explain the different types of pain and their effects.
This infocomic ...
What is the study about?
This study looked at chronic pain severity, its interference with daily function, and the history of pain treatment across several demographics of individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI).
What did the study find?
The study found that individuals with TBI who identified as Black reported greater pain severity ...
What is the study about?
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.
What did the study find?
Participants ...
After TBI, it is common to have a variety of different emotional and cognitive issues. Pain can make these problems worse, and these problems can make pain feel worse. This comic helps to explain the common effects of pain and what you can do about them.
This infocomic follows a TBI ...
What is the study about?
This commentary article aims to highlight the severity of the opioid epidemic and the potentially significant connection with lifetime history of traumatic brain injury (TBI). The authors suggest that TBI can have unrecognized consequences that may increase the risk for opioid use disorders (OUD). The factors ...
After a TBI, it is common to experience anxiety. Anxiety is closely related to pain, and each can make the other worse. This comic explains the relationship between pain and anxiety and demonstrates strategies to help manage both conditions.
This infocomic follows a TBI survivor as anxiety and pain cause problems ...
What is the study about?
The aim of this report is to describe the development of a new tool to measure how much pain interferes in daily life in people with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The TBI-QOL Pain Interference Item Bank used an approach in agreement with established measurement development standards, ...
Objective
The purpose of this article is to illustrate the process of stakeholder-engaged intervention mapping
approach to identify implementation strategies to overcome data-driven prioritized barriers to receiving chronic pain
services for persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Design
Participatory-based research design, using descriptive and
intervention mapping approaches.
Results
Four barriers to accessing chronic pain treatment by persons with ...
A TBI can cause damage in the brain or to the nerves that makes muscles not respond as they should. This is called spasticity. This comic explains spasticity and what can be done to improve symptoms of it.
This infocomic follows a TBI survivor as she learns to different ways of ...
What is Cognition?
Cognition is the act of knowing or thinking. Some thinking abilities that can be affected by TBI include:
Attention and concentration
Processing and understanding information
Memory
Planning, organizing, and assembling
Reasoning, problem-solving, decision-making, and judgment
Monitoring and watching behavior to ensure that it is socially acceptable
Communicating thoughts or ideas in ways that others can ...
Depression is a feeling of sadness, loss, despair or hopelessness that does not get better over time and is overwhelming enough to interfere with daily life. There is cause for concern when feeling depressed or losing interest in usual activities occurs at least several days per week and lasts for ...
What is the study about?
This study evaluated whether tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α is associated with disinhibition and thoughts of suicide 6 and 12 months after traumatic brain injury (TBI). TNF-α is one of the inflammatory cytokines produced early after TBI. TNF-α is associated with thoughts of suicide in the general ...
What is the study about?
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 ...
What Is Chronic Pain, and How Can It Affect People?
Pain is an unpleasant sensation that can range from mild to very severe. Pain is very personal; two people can have the same type and amount of pain and have very different reactions to it. Pain can affect many other parts ...
What is the study about?
This study aims to address the gap in treatments for psychological distress (feeling sad, afraid, anxious, depressed, etc.) in persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI). This study examined Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). ACT is focused on helping people to accept whatever they are thinking or ...