Selective Changes in Executive Functioning Ten Years After Severe Childhood Traumatic Brain Injury
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Pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI) impacts on children's executive functions, but little is known of how such deficits evolve in the long term. Forty adolescents with TBI were assessed ten years post-injury and compared to 19 typically developing participants on a range of executive measures (attentional control, cognitive flexibility, goal setting, information processing). Children with mild or moderate TBI performed within age expectations on all tests; however, those with severe injuries had poorer performance on goal setting and processing speed tasks. Childhood TBI may result in subtle lasting changes in complex executive skills, which could require ongoing support into adulthood.
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The low-average mean performance on Fluid Cognition in the severe TBI group is typical of previous findings reporting neuropsychological outcomes in pediatric TBI.
“The low-average mean performance on Fluid Cognition in the sTBI group is typical of previous findings reporting neuropsychological outcomes in pediatric TBI (Anderson et al., 2012; Beauchamp et al., 2011; Catroppa & Anderson, 2003; Treble-Barna et al., 2017b).”
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- Authors
- Beauchamp, M., Catroppa, C., Godfrey, C., Morse, S., Rosenfeld, J. V., & Anderson, V.
- Affiliations
- Université de Montréal (CA)
- Murdoch Children's Research Institute (AU)
- Royal Children's Hospital (AU)
- Monash University (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Beauchamp, Miriam
- Venue
- Developmental Neuropsychology
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2011-06-10
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 578-595
- ISSN
- 1532-6942 (ISSN-L)
- 8756-5641
- OpenAlex
- W2036655580
- Cited by
- 104
- References
- 9
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- FWCI
- 3.86
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Developmental Neuropsychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Neurology › Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Keywords
- pediatric traumatic brain injury, executive function, long-term outcomes, adolescents, goal setting, processing speed, cognitive flexibility, attentional control, information processing
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Attention, Brain Injuries, Child, Child, Preschool, Follow-Up Studies, Goals, Humans, Neuropsychological Tests, Surveys and Questionnaires, Time, Injury Severity Score, Executive Function
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