TY - JOUR
T1 - Delineating communication impairments associated with mild traumatic brain injury
T2 - A case report
AU - Whelan, Brooke Mai
AU - Murdoch, Bruce E.
AU - Bellamy, Nicholas
PY - 2007/5
Y1 - 2007/5
N2 - BACKGROUND: Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) without frank neurological disturbance has been linked to persistent physical, cognitive, and affective disturbances in some cases. The cognitive sequelae of this syndrome represent the most frequently studied symptoms, yet the legacy of such injuries on communicative functions remains largely undetermined. METHODS: A detailed language profile of a 19-year-old woman, 1 year 10 months following mTBI is compared with a matched normative cohort of 10 participants with nonneurological impairment. RESULTS: Deficits in attention, lexical access, complex lexical-semantic manipulation, response monitoring, and organization were revealed as a consequence of mTBI. CONCLUSIONS: This profile provides support for hypotheses pertaining to neuronal fallout mechanisms within the frontal lobes as a consequence of mild neurological insult.
AB - BACKGROUND: Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) without frank neurological disturbance has been linked to persistent physical, cognitive, and affective disturbances in some cases. The cognitive sequelae of this syndrome represent the most frequently studied symptoms, yet the legacy of such injuries on communicative functions remains largely undetermined. METHODS: A detailed language profile of a 19-year-old woman, 1 year 10 months following mTBI is compared with a matched normative cohort of 10 participants with nonneurological impairment. RESULTS: Deficits in attention, lexical access, complex lexical-semantic manipulation, response monitoring, and organization were revealed as a consequence of mTBI. CONCLUSIONS: This profile provides support for hypotheses pertaining to neuronal fallout mechanisms within the frontal lobes as a consequence of mild neurological insult.
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U2 - 10.1097/01.HTR.0000271120.04405.db
DO - 10.1097/01.HTR.0000271120.04405.db
M3 - Article
C2 - 17510595
AN - SCOPUS:34249042283
SN - 0885-9701
VL - 22
SP - 192
EP - 197
JO - Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation
JF - Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation
IS - 3
ER -