TBI Publications

Reports the results of a study in which 20 patients with claimed mild head injury who were seeking financial compensation obtained significantly lower scores on both subtests of the Recognition Memory Test than did 66 rehabilitation inpatients with documented moderate and severe traumatic brain injuries (TBI). Replicates an earlier ...

Reports the results of a study in which a neuropsychological test battery was administered to 23 subjects with traumatic brain injury (TBI) who were participating in the National Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems study. Trails B and Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test scores obtained during initial inpatient rehabilitation correlated ...

Discusses the possible role of somatization in the maintenance of symptoms in mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), such as postconcussion syndrome. Presents concepts that propose that psychosocial factors such as expectancy and attribution may contribute to the development and continuation of symptoms in these exceptional cases. ...

Study using a multiple baseline design to evaluate the efficacy of a behavioral treatment program for improving the functional skills of a child with anoxic brain injury. The subject was a 12 year old girl who experienced prolonged anoxia during a near drowning accident. A neuropsychological evaluation performed 3 ...

In Part II we address tools for describing general functional levels of clients in acute care, in traumatic brain injury (TBI) rehabilitation programs, and in the community. Tools must be brief, have proven reliability, and measure characteristics common to moderately and severely brain-injured individuals. Possible components of a uniform ...

Questions of how to measure outcomes are commonly heard in rehabilitation today. In this supplement we review the current state of the art of outcomes measurement in traumatic brain injury rehabilitation, discuss key issues, and identify steps that need to be taken. The underlying question is not simply that ...

A review of the literature suggests that psychosocial disability in traumatic brain-injured (TBI) individuals and distress in families continues long after the initial injury. In this study the relationship of family stress to a number of factors was studied longitudinally. Caregivers of 51 TBI inpatients were interviewed at rehabilitation ...

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The great majority of traumatic brain injury (TBI) is of mild severity, with Glasgow Coma Scores (GCS) of 13-15, post-traumatic amnesia of less than 48 hours and brief, if any, hospitalization. All mild TBI admissions to hospital were provided with education in the form of a brief interview and ...

During the past decade the rehabilitation field has developed new, non-hospital based programmes of cognitive, behavioural, social, educational and vocational treatments to address the higher order cognitive, behavioural and social deficits following brain injury. These new arrays of programmes are referred to under the term 'post-acute' rehabilitation. No comprehensive, ...

The basic findings of brain-injured patients who underwent treatment within a co-ordinated system of post-acute brain-injury rehabilitation programmes have already been reported. The changes in function during the course of treatment by this post-acute sequence of rehabilitation were obtained and reported. A defined total population of N = 192 ...

The objective of this study was to develop one instrument for assessing quantitatively the disability of severe head trauma patients so their rehabilitative progress could be followed from coma through different levels of awareness and functioning to their return to the community. This disability rating (DR) instrument was designed ...

Objective: To examine whether the Wide Range Achievement Test-3 (WRAT-3) Reading subtest (S. Jastak & G. S. Wilkenson, 1984; G. S. Wilkinson, 1993) measures premorbid intelligence in persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Participants: Sixty individuals (63% male, 78% Caucasian, mean age = 38 years) tested during acute rehabilitation ...