Trauma per se, and not specifically traumatic brain injury, may be the cause.
Potential long-term neuropsychiatric consequences of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) have generated concern and research, but few studies have involved children and controlled for their rapid development and psychosocial issues. These researchers prospectively followed 124 children after mTBI and compared them with 115 children who had a nonbrain injury and 145 noninjured controls recruited from local schools (mean ages, 11.9, 12.8, and 12.2, respectively; 64%, 59%, and 46% boys). Demographic characteristics and parental education in the three groups were similar. The children completed a battery of 10 cognitive tasks at 1, 6, and 12 months.
Both injury groups performed worse than the noninjured group (but no differently from each other) …
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DisclosuresRoyaltiesTextbook of Traumatic Brain Injury, 2nd and 3rd editions
Editorial BoardsUpToDate; Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
Leadership Positions in Professional SocietiesNorth American Brain Injury Association (Board Member); National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (Chair of Data Monitoring Safety Board for study of donepezil on cognition after traumatic brain injury)
DisclosuresRoyaltiesTextbook of Traumatic Brain Injury, 2nd and 3rd editions
Editorial BoardsUpToDate; Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
Leadership Positions in Professional SocietiesNorth American Brain Injury Association (Board Member); National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (Chair of Data Monitoring Safety Board for study of donepezil on cognition after traumatic brain injury)