Long-term cognitive and affective consequences of mild traumatic brain injury: comparison with older adults.

Objective: Memory and affective processing were compared in young adults with a remote mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), to healthy younger and older adults. We evaluated memory performance when encoding was done under multi-tasking (divided attention) conditions, likely to exacerbate cognitive and psychological symptoms in mTBI.

Methods: Participants studied pairs of unrelated words under either full or divided attention conditions.