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Clinical Aspects of Pediatric Head Injury
Traumatic head injury is one of the leading causes to severe morbidity and death among children. Specific and national management guidelines for pediatric head injuries are lacking in Sweden, and management routines are consequently based on adult guidelines or local guidelines. The objectives of …
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Neuropsychological impairment in children following head injury
There is a high incidence of head injury in children, yet few studies have systematically studied cognitive outcome. This study was designed as a survey to (a) establish the nature of intellectual and neuropsychological deficits that occur after head injuries of differing severity in children aged …
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Value of follow-up CT in head injury assessment
… scanning of the brain in a patient with a proven head injury remains pertinent, and the answer is not clear cut. This is even more so compounded when one tries to compare and equate what happens in a developed country with that of a developing country such as South Africa. AIM: To evaluate …
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Real-World and Population-Based Studies of Head Injury Causation
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major public health concern in the United States often resulting in long-term effects on quality of life and premature mortality. Previous experimental studies have identified TBI as an acceleration-based injury, often resulting from direct contact or loading to …
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Oral and Written Discourse in Adolescents With Closed Head Injury
… were provided by 8 adolescents with closed head injury (CHI) and 8 matched controls. A generation task using the ""Cookie Theft"" picture stimulus provided the basis for discourse analysis. A total of 8 measures [productivity, efficiency, semantic ties (lexical, incomplete, elliptical), maze …
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The behaviour of children one year after a head injury
… aged between 5 and 14 years 1 year after a head injury. Subjects were selected from consecutive admissions to trauma units on the basis of neurological criteria. Severity of injury was graded according to duration of post-traumatic amnesia (PTA). There were 53 children in the Moderate group …
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Evaluating the Head Injury Risk Associated with Baseball and Softball
… and softball were responsible for 11.6% of all head injuries treated in emergency rooms in 2009; third most behind only cycling and football. Ball impact has been identified as the leading cause of injury in baseball and softball, with the most frequent injury resulting from a ball impacting the …
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Distinct forms of depression and somatization following head injury: A neuropsychological framework and exploratory treatment paradigm for somatic symptoms and executive dysfunction following mild head injury
Psychiatric symptoms following traumatic brain injury (TBI) pose a significant barrier to neurorehabilitation and impact survivor’s life satisfaction following injury. Depressive and somatization symptoms are common clinical presentations postinjury; however, due to the paucity of etiological …
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Caregivers of adults with closed head injury: A family systems perspective
… adult family member who had sustained a closed head injury. The subjects consisted of 32 parents/siblings and 17 spouses/significant others, ages 22 to 71 (M = 50), and of 18 female and 31 male head injured adults, who ranged in age from 18 to 77 (M = 33). The head injured family members were at …
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The long-term impact of severe head injury on the family
… of this study was to examine the impact of brain injury upon the family of the brain-injured patient. Although some research into the psychosocial sequelae following head injury and the direct and indirect effects of severe head-injury upon the family have been conducted, these studies have …
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Predicting closed head injury using a standardized measure of sensory-motor functioning
… identify sensory-motor deficits caused by closed head injury (CHI) when individuals with CHI are compared to a normal sample. The study also investigated lower-level sensory-motor functioning, such as gait, balance, and coordination and its relation to neurological impairment related to CHI. …
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Predicting closed head injury status with the Dean-Woodcock Sensory Motor Battery
… identifying individuals with and without closed-head injury, comparing the predictive power of a two- and three-factor representation (DWSMB; Dean & Woodcock, 2003). The current study's major research questions focused on the predictive utility of the structure of the DWSMB. The simplified …
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Assessing the Efficacy of Bicycle Helmets in Reducing Risk of Head Injury
… benefits, it is not an activity free of injury risk. Increases in cycling popularity in the United States over the past 15 years have been paralleled by a 120% growth in cycling-related hospital admissions, with injuries to the head among the most common and debilitating injuries. Bicycle …
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Long-term outcome following severe and very severe closed head injury during childhood
… who sustained severe and very severe closed head injury in motor vehicle accidents while under the age of 15 years was carried out at a mean of 6,1 years post-injury. Each subject was neuropsychologically assessed using a battery of tests including those of general intellectual ability and …
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Verbal Learning and Memory in Adults with Mild, Moderate and Severe Closed Head Injury
… of cognitive dysfunctions associated with closed head injury is impaired_memory function. The current study examined qualitative and quantitative aspects of learning and memory to define the effects of mild head injury in comparison to moderate and severe head injury and a sample of normal …
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Using Disability Rating Scale Recovery Curves to Predict PASAT Performance After Closed Head Injury
… models of cognitive outcome following closed head injury have been largely based on a single time-point. Using archival data, the current study sought to improve upon existing models by predicting cognitive outcome at six months post-injury from a model of the rate of recovery of global …
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Intracranial findings in head injury patients who died at the University Teaching Hospital Lusaka,Zambia
… intracranial lesions in patients who died of head injury. Two hundred and fifty three patients were admitted to the University Teaching Hospital with head injury in 1996,of these eighty (31.6%) died. Fifty four (67.5%) had autopsy and the incidence of intracranial haemorrhage was forty eight …
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The usefulness of neuropsychological test scores in predicting social recovery in closed head injury patients.
Dept. of Psychology. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1988 .D654. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-07, page: . Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1988.
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