Traumatic brain injury in Spanish-speaking individuals: Research findings and clinical implications

Brain Injury ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 801-804 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Carlos Arango-Lasprilla
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
Research Findings

Do traditional executive measures tell us anything about daily-life functioning after traumatic brain injury in Spanish-speaking individuals?

Brain Injury ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 864-874 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. García-Molina ◽  
J.M. Tormos ◽  
M. Bernabeu ◽  
C. Junqué ◽  
T. Roig-Rovira
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
Life Functioning

scholarly journals Outcome in Women with Traumatic Brain Injury Admitted to a Level 1 Trauma Center

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Elaine de Guise ◽  
Joanne LeBlanc ◽  
Jehane Dagher ◽  
Simon Tinawi ◽  
Julie Lamoureux ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Functional Independence Measure ◽  
Functional Independence ◽  
Discharge Destination ◽  
Confounding Variables ◽  
Mcgill University ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Level 1 Trauma Center

Background. The aim of this study was to compare acute outcome between men and women after sustaining a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Methods. A total of 5,642 patients admitted to the Traumatic Brain Injury Program of the McGill University Health Centre-Montreal General Hospital between 2000 and 2011 and diagnosed with a TBI were included in the study. The overall percentage of women with TBI was 30.6% (n= 1728). Outcome measures included the length of stay (LOS), the Extended Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOSE), the functional independence measure instrument (FIM), discharge destination, and mortality rate. Results. LOS, GOSE, the FIM ratings, and discharge destination did not show significant differences between genders once controlling for several confounding variables and running the appropriate diagnostic tests (P<0.05). However, women had less chance of dying during their acute care hospitalization than men of the same age, with the same TBI severity and following the same mechanism of injury. Although gender was a statistically significant predictor, its contribution in explaining variation in mortality was small. Conclusion. More research is needed to better understand gender differences in mortality; as to date, the research findings remain inconclusive.

Traumatic brain injury in children – clinical implications

2004 ◽  
Vol 56 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 113-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruediger Noppens ◽  
Ansgar M. Brambrink
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Clinical Implications

Vigilance and fatigue following traumatic brain injury

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
CARLO ZIINO ◽  
JENNIE PONSFORD
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Vigilance Task ◽  
Attention Task ◽  
Subjective Fatigue ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Stable Performance ◽  
Over Time

Research findings have suggested that individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) show greater psychophysiological and subjective costs associated with performing vigilance tasks, but have not examined relationships with fatigue. The present study aimed to investigate vigilance and its relationship with subjective and objective fatigue measures. Forty-six TBI participants and 46 controls completed a 45-minute vigilance task. They also completed a subjective fatigue scale (the VAS-F) and a selective attention task before and after the vigilance task, and had their blood pressure (BP) monitored. TBI participants performed at a lower level on the vigilance task, but performed at a similar level across the duration of the task. Higher subjective fatigue ratings on the VAS-F were associated with more misses on the vigilance task for TBI participants. TBI participants showed greater increases in diastolic BP, and these were associated with greater increases in subjective fatigue ratings on the VAS-F. A subgroup of TBI participants showed a decline in performance on the vigilance task and also showed disproportionate increases in subjective fatigue. Findings provide support for the coping hypothesis, suggesting that TBI individuals expend greater psychophysiological costs in order to maintain stable performance over time, and that these costs are also associated with subjective increases in fatigue. (JINS, 2006,12, 100–110.)

Biochemical and neurochemical sequelae following mild traumatic brain injury: summary of experimental data and clinical implications

2010 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. E1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Signoretti ◽  
Roberto Vagnozzi ◽  
Barbara Tavazzi ◽  
Giuseppe Lazzarino
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Diffuse Axonal Injury ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
The Past ◽  
Metabolic Functions ◽  
Extensive Analysis ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
Dominant Theory

Although numerous studies have been carried out to investigate the pathophysiology of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), there are still no standard criteria for the diagnosis and treatment of this peculiar condition. The dominant theory that diffuse axonal injury is the main neuropathological process behind mTBI is being revealed as weak at best or inconclusive, given the current literature and the fact that neuronal injury inherent to mTBI improves, with few lasting clinical sequelae in the vast majority of patients. Clinical and experimental evidence suggests that such a course, rather than being due to cell death, is based on temporal neuronal dysfunction, the inevitable consequence of complex biochemical and neurochemical cascade mechanisms directly and immediately triggered by the traumatic insult. This report is an attempt to summarize data from a long series of experiments conducted in the authors' laboratories and published during the past 12 years, together with an extensive analysis of the available literature, focused on understanding the biochemical damage produced by an mTBI. The overall clinical implications, as well as the metabolic nature of the post-mTBI brain vulnerability, are discussed. Finally, the application of proton MR spectroscopy as a possible tool to monitor the full recovery of brain metabolic functions is emphasized.

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