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Advanced Neurology Cognition in children with mild TBI

Result (s) Compared with the controls, children with mTBI displayed an inferior performance enhancement in switching attention and working memory across the testing sessions in the first 6 weeks after the injury. This resulted in a delayed deficit in the executive function component of working memory 12 weeks after the injury. Most children recover within 3 months after mTBI. After 1 year, the prevalence of

Family

Psychiatric - Prevalence of PTSD -Risk of psychiatric illness and utilization of psychiatric services

Outcome measure (s) Psychosocial

Cognitive - Stroop task (inhibition task) - Complex span task (working memory) - Cognitive flexibility task (switching) - Reaction time (processing speed) - CBCL - Teacher’s report form (TRF)

neurologic and neuroradiologic

PCS/ -MRI

Evaluation time points after TBI 2, 6, and 12 weeks 12 – 30 months 3 and 12 months

Mean age (range)/ (years) 7.3 (5 – 10) 5.5 11.9 (8 – 15)

Population Males 7 - 123

835 (6
N 13 studies) 176

Table 1. (Continued) Control Author/year/ group country/ design HC Loher et al. 33 /2014/ Switzerland/ Prospective cohort HC and Keightley OI et al. 44 /2014/ Canada/ Systematic review OI Taylor et al. 34 /2015/US and Canada/ Prospective cohort

Volume 3 Issue 4 (2024) 7 doi: 10.36922/an.3886