Traumatic Brain Injury Research

In the article Cognitive development after traumatic brain injury in young children, we read and discovered the effect traumatic brain, also known as TBI, has on a young children. The major point of this study was to show post-injury cognitive development on young children depending on the year of the child when it occurred, and the role of the family environment had on cognitive outcomes. Traumatic brain injury is a major health concern for children 0-14 years old, with approximately 37,000 hospitalizations. Many of these hospitalizations lead to deficits in memory and executive function can be permit. If this occurs between the school ages of children it is said to have less of an effect on some language skills. They hypothesized that cognitive

The were children who sustained TBI or OI (Orthopedic injury) between ages of 3 years, and 6 years and 11 months were recruited from three tertiary care children’s hospital and a generalized hospital all with level one trauma centers. They were required to have blunt trauma that required an overnight stay at the hospital with either a Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) with a score of 15 or less or signs of TBI through a computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Severe TBI was if they had a GCS score below an eight, moderate TBI if the score was between 9-12, and complicated mild TBI if the score was between 13-15. However, if English was not the main language of the child spoken at home or had history of child abuse were excluded from the study. Not only was the child given a test battery for the study, a parent interview was conducted to obtain information history and the home environment, and a recording was conducted of how the parents interacted with their child. Once this occurred children were given neuropsychological test with overlapping batteries tailored along the way and ages groups 3 years 5 months, 3 years and 6 months, to 5 years 11 months, and 6 years to 6 years and 11

So what they have gathered in the results is the sever TBI Scored significantly lower than the OI group on most of the experiments, with lower deficits in the moderate and complicated TBI groups. The sizes for sever TBI compared to OI contrast were medium to large. As for moderate TBI compared to OI were just medium. The analysis also revealed A group x time since injury. They then did follow up test to examine the amount of interaction deficiencies over time post injury in the severe TBI group, relative OI group with significant deficits only at 12 and 18 months post injury in severe TBI group and 18 months in the moderate TBI group. The analysis revealed significant differences between TBI and OI group at only 12 and 18 months after injury. To examine the sources of interaction each TBI compared to OI were tested at levels of low and high. Results revealed that deficits were significant for the severe TBI and moderate for OI. Basically in these test they had three hypotheses. In support of their first hypothesis, cognitive deficits in young children with severe TBI were more pronounced and generalized than those associated with mild TBI. They were very consistent with their second hypothesis. Their consequences persisted across the 18 month follow up interval. There was no indications of recovery and deficit in