abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare native North American and non-native North American patients admitted for inpatient rehabilitation following traumatic brain injury in order to identify pertinent differences between the two groups with regards to the initial injury, medical management and allocated resources. DESIGN:A retrospecti...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Blackmer J,Marshall SC

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential clinical and financial advantages of providing neurorehabilitation directly in patients' homes and communities have recently been discussed. However, the specific characteristics and outcomes of a coordinated, interdisciplinary, home-based programme does not currently exist in the rehabilitation literatu...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Pace GM,Schlund MW,Hazard-Haupt T,Christensen JR,Lashno M,McIver J,Peterson K,Morgan KA

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this case report is to describe the time course of S-100 serum levels of a patient, after severe head injury, whose blood sample could be drawn very soon after injury. The results were compared to a group of patients in which a correlation between S-100 serum levels and outcome after traumatic brain injury ...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Rothoerl RD,Woertgen C,Holzschuh M,Metz C,Brawanski A

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocytic subtypes in different cortical regions of injured human cerebral cortex of 22 patients with brain trauma, vascular anomalies and brain tumours have been examined by means of light microscopy and conventional transmission electron microscopy. The cortical biopsies of frontal, parietal and temporal cortex wer...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Castejón OJ

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study employed a modification of the intonation unit analysis for conversational discourse developed by Mentis and Prutting. The percentage of total intonation units produced within separate ideational categories was calculated for groups of closed head-injured and normal control subjects as well as the examiner....

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Wozniak RJ,Coelho CA,Duffy RJ,Liles BZ

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory deficit is one of the most frequent cognitive complications encountered after brain injury. It is recognized as difficult to treat. Over the past decades, various strategies of memory remediation have been used. Among them, prosthetic devices, such as notebooks and alarms, have shown some benefit. This study de...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Kim HJ,Burke DT,Dowds MM,George J

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The literature has been replete with reports that persons who require craniotomy for treatment of their traumatic brain injury have a far worse outcome. The majority of these reports have utilized the rather global Glasgow Outcome Scale as a determinant of outcome. This paper sought to evaluate the effect of craniotom...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Zafonte R,Ricker J,Lombard L,Mann N,Black K

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shorter inpatient stays for traumatically brain injured patients frequently allow less time for comprehensive education of families and caretakers. What is needed to compensate for the shortened duration of brain injury rehabilitation in many settings is a family educational programme that (1) satisfies the family's a...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Holland D,Shigaki CL

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Determine whether spurious SCL 90-R profiles resulting from endorsement of neurologic treatment items can be corrected and still retain ecological validity. DESIGN:The proportion of subjects' item endorsement was compared with the adult non-patient norm group. Items with discriminative power (chi 2 > 25, p <...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Kaplan CP

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is a sequel to that of McMillan (1997) and describes further assessment of an extremely severely head injured patient. A combination of direct observations, structured interviews with staff, simple cognitive tests and questions with yes/no answers were used to assess communication and cognitive function in ...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Shiel A,Wilson BA

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metronome, singing, and board pacing were used as external rate control techniques for the purpose of comparing the effectiveness of auditory and visual speech timing cues for reducing speech rate and increasing intelligibility in three traumatically brain injured mixed spastic-ataxic dysarthric speakers. A single sys...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Pilon MA,McIntosh KW,Thaut MH

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a patient who exhibited Gerstmann's syndrome in association with a chronic subdural haematoma. A 71-year-old right-handed woman presented with mild right arm and leg weakness that began 2 weeks prior to admission. Neurological examination on admission revealed a mild right hemiparesis. Neuropsychological exa...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Maeshima S,Okumura Y,Nakai K,Itakura T,Komai N

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing age is associated with greater absolute neuropsychological impairment (e.g. slower processing speed, diminished memory), although it is unclear if older individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) show greater relative impairment than younger individuals with TBI. The current study evaluated the effects o...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Johnstone B,Childers MK,Hoerner J

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to examine the efficacy of using the Recognition Memory Test (RMT) as a marker for malingered memory deficits. Data from 60 subjects, including 40 patients seen for neuropsychological evaluation and 20 university undergraduates, are reported. The university students were given expe...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Iverson GL,Franzen MD

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with brain tumours often report distress. Interpretive problems ensue when measures normed on healthy persons are utilized to quantify distress. This study investigated potentially spurious elevations on the Hopkins Symptom Checklist 90 Revised (SCL 90-R). Responses of 17 patients were obtained prior to aggre...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Kaplan CP,Miner ME,Mervis L,Newton H,McGregor JM,Goodman JH

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of death and permanent disability in children and adolescents. Although cognitive and behavioural effects have now been reported for all degrees of TBI severity in children, other aspects of functioning which might be related (such as psychosocial adjustment), have bee...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Andrews TK,Rose FD,Johnson DA

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory dysfunction is a recognized and difficult to treat complication of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Since medial-temporal lobe injury is a frequent contributor to memory dysfunction in TBI, it is likely that an acetylcholine deficit contributes to memory dysfunction in this population. Recently, Donepezil, an acet...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Taverni JP,Seliger G,Lichtman SW

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of linear measurements in the analysis of CT scans of TBI patients was found to contribute to the understanding of brain damage and were correlated with outcome in severe traumatic close brain injured patients. The purpose of the present study was to analyse the data obtained by the linear measurements on CT s...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Reider-Groswasser I,Costeff H,Sazbon L,Groswasser Z

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While movement disorders are frequently encountered after brain injuries, and may create a host of complicated problems for the clinician, only a few cases of Parkinsonism associated with hydrocephalus have ever been described in the literature. Parkinsonism-like syndrome complicating hydrocephalus is a rare disorder,...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Aggarwal S,Childers MK,Jimenez D

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined an operational conditioning paradigm designed to train procedural learning channels in a patient with anoxic encephalopathy. Prior to treatment the patient had been incontinent to bowel and bladder incontinent, minimally participant in daily activities and aggressive toward staff and residents for ...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Goldberg KB,Ellis DW

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social competence assessment and training has long focused on specific skills within the clinical setting. In addition, emphasis has been placed on identifying deficits relative to an arbitrary, often idiosyncratic metric. In this article, we discuss the importance of the principles that underlie communication and whi...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： McGann W,Werven G,Douglas MM

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frontal lobes are particularly vulnerable to injury during trauma. The syndrome commonly attributed to frontal lobe dysfunction includes problems with impulsivity, perseveration, disinhibition, amotivation, attention, planning, and problem solving. These symptoms can respond to certain pharmacologic interventions,...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Kraus MF,Maki P

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this investigation, neuropsychological testing was conducted with 69 college students that were instructed to malinger either multiple sclerosis (MS) or traumatic brain injury (TIB) or were non-malingering controls. The two malingering groups were divided into informed and non-informed groups. The informed groups r...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Klimczak NJ,Donovick PJ,Burright R

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four brain-injured subjects with semantic memory impairments are described. Two had sustained traumatic head injury and two had herpes simplex virus encephalitis. The study seeks to determine (a) whether subjects with non-progressive brain injury and impaired semantic memory perform similarly to patients with progress...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Wilson BA

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of skull fracture in affecting morbidity following closed head injury (CHI) has received a significant amount of attention from researchers. While there is fairly widespread agreement that skull fractures increase the risk of complications such as haematoma, it us unclear whether the presence of skull fractur...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Smith-Seemiller L,Lovell MR,Smith S,Markosian N,Townsend RN

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Valproic acid, a primary anticonvulsant drug, has recently been studied for purported effectiveness in disparate disorders of mood and behaviour. The psychopharmacological treatment of patients with acquired brain injury frequently includes numerous trials of psychotherapeutic drugs such as antipsychotics, benzodiazep...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Wroblewski BA,Joseph AB,Kupfer J,Kalliel K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the degree of association between four sets of predictor variables (demographic, injury-related, patient functioning, and caregiver functioning variables) and the criterion variable of long-term family functioning following severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). Thirty families participated in th...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Douglas JM,Spellacy FJ

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R) Verbal IQ-Performance IQ (VIQ-PIQ) discrepancy and a number of indices of intersubtest scatter were examined in 25 subjects with a history of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) evidence of structural brain abnormality. Abnormal VIQ-P...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Kraiuhin C,Shores EA,Roberts C

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Residual memory deficits may represent a problem to the everyday functioning of a large number of people, including those who have sustained traumatic brain injury (TBI). The present exploratory study sought to investigate the interrelationships between subjective memory reports, performance on traditional memory test...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Kinsella G,Murtagh D,Landry A,Homfray K,Hammond M,O'Beirne L,Dwyer L,Lamont M,Ponsford J

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-injury cognitive data are rarely available for review for individuals suffering from traumatic brain injury (TBI). Although pre-injury intelligence and academic scores may be available, particularly if an individual is learning-disabled (LD), data on specific cognitive abilities are unlikely to exist. We present n...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Vieth AZ,Johnstone B,Dawson B

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many individuals suffer acquired brain injury (ABI) each year. This impacts on the need for rehabilitation supports and services that facilitate the achievement of personal goals. The role of assessment in the rehabilitation of people with ABI is examined. The extent to which assessment practices match (in any way) no...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Rees RJ,Storry CJ

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to investigate the organic and psychogenic components of post-concussive syndrome (PCS), the subjective complaints, the cognitive findings and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) profiles of 53 consecutive mild head injury patients (MHI) with persistent PCS were evaluated. The results seem ...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Cattelani R,Gugliotta M,Maravita A,Mazzucchi A

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arousal profiles are a method that we have developed for using data derived from time sampling to examine how behaviours such as the frequency with which the eyes are observed open, and the frequency of spontaneous movements, vary in the periods immediately before and immediately after sensory stimulation treatment. W...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Wilson SL,Brock D,Powell GE,Thwaites H,Elliott K

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term 'concussion' has been applied to head injuries of varying severity. Most studies have examined subjects suffering concussion of a severity requiring hospital observation, usually as a consequence of motor vehicle accidents. Milder concussive injuries such as those resulting from contact sport are often not re...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Maddocks D,Saling M

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is general agreement between researchers and clinicians alike that relatives of people with head injuries experience heightened stress as a result of the injury and its consequences. In the present study a single structured interview, including both verbally administered and written response questionnaires, was ...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Leathem J,Heath E,Woolley C

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dynamic scoring system was developed to quantitatively resolve the ability of a subject to persistently execute a repeated motor act. Saccadic eye movements in response to pseudo-random and periodic stimuli were examined in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and in normal subjects. Results indicated signific...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Glass I,Groswasser Z,Groswasser-Reider I

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rehabilitation services for patients with brain injury have been slower to develop than those with other disabilities, but have rapidly improved over the past 10-15 years. A range of different, specialized brain injury programmes has evolved. The literature is reviewed and the author describes and discusses the relati...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Burke DC

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past three or four decades two treatment technologies have been evolving in parallel, recently to some extent merging. The first of these technologies is behaviour analysis, with its emphasis on identification and manipulation of variables external to the individual as controlling agents. The second is neurol...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Peters MD,McLean A Jr

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the past decade the usage of dopaminergic agonists for the brain-injured population has become a more common treatment option during both the acute and subacute phases of recovery. We attempted to use Sinemet to address the functional limitations of a 74-year-old woman who was 7 months status post-traumatic bra...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Wolf AP,Gleckman AD

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The disablement that occurs following traumatic brain injury (TBI) can be extensive and severe and consequently has been difficult to report on in a comprehensive and thorough manner. We were able to address this difficulty by analysing a sub group of data from the Canadian Health and Activity Limitation Survey (HALS)...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Dawson DR,Chipman M

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00