Brain injury : [BI]
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Brain injury : [BI] · Jan 2017
Highlighting the differences in post-traumatic symptoms between patients with complicated and uncomplicated mild traumatic brain injury and injured controls.
The goal of the current study is to explore the difference in acute post-concussive symptoms (PCS), headaches, sleep and mood complaints between groups of patients with complicated and uncomplicated mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBIs) and a comparable group of injured controls. Interactions among the following four factors were studied: presence of (1) PCS; (2) headaches; (3) sleep disorders; and (4) psychological status. ⋯ The vestibular function should be assessed systematically after a complicated mTBI. Furthermore, the mTBI diagnosis should be based on operational criteria, and not on reported symptoms.
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Brain injury : [BI] · Jan 2017
Mirror efficiency in the assessment of visual pursuit in patients in minimally conscious state.
Visual pursuit should be tested with a mirror in patients with disorders of consciousness. This stimulus was indeed more efficient than a person or an object, and the auto-referential aspect was supposed to be the key feature. The present study tested the hypothesis that the mirror was more efficient because of its self-aspect. ⋯ Although our results suggest that the hypothesis proposed by previous studies was partly wrong, they confirm that the mirror is the best stimulus to use when assessing visual pursuit.
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Brain injury : [BI] · Jan 2017
Longitudinal changes in brain morphology from 4 weeks to 12 months after mild traumatic brain injury: Associations with cognitive functions and clinical variables.
To investigate longitudinal changes in cortical and subcortical volumes in patients with mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) and to evaluate whether such changes were associated with self-reported post-concussive symptoms, global functional outcomes and neuropsychological functioning. ⋯ Structural subcortical alterations occur after complicated and uncomplicated MTBIs but these findings were not associated with symptoms burden or functional outcomes. Nonetheless, worse executive functioning was found in patients with shrinkage of the left temporal lobe.
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Brain injury : [BI] · Jan 2017
Effects of concomitant mild traumatic brain injury on resuming work after suffering from an isolated limb fracture: A cohort study.
The objective is to explore the effects of concomitant mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) on return to work (RTW), among patients suffering from an isolated limb fracture. This follow-up study included a total of 170 working age subjects with an isolated limb fracture, and was conducted in a phone interview approximately 1-year post trauma. 41 had experienced an mTBI and 129 did not. ⋯ This study shows that mTBI increases work disability by preventing working-age individuals from rapidly returning to work.
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Brain injury : [BI] · Jan 2017
Additive effects of sequential excitatory and inhibitory theta burst stimulation in improving cortical excitability following ischaemic stroke.
To study the effects of sequential excitatory and inhibitory theta burst stimulation (TBS) on cortical excitability in patients with subacute ischaemic stroke. ⋯ The results indicate that combining iTBSSH and cTBSIH can have additive effect in increasing cortical excitability in subacute ischaemic patients with stroke.