Screening for Delirium During Pediatric Brain Injury Rehabilitation.

Objective: To assess feasibility of routine delirium screening using the Cornell Assessment of Pediatric Delirium (CAPD) in children admitted for rehabilitation with acquired brain injury (ABI), report on the prevalence of positive delirium screens in this population, and explore longitudinal trends in CAPD scores and their association with rehabilitation outcomes.

Design: Retrospective study.

Setting: Pediatric inpatient rehabilitation unit.

Head Control Contributes to Prediction of Emergence From the Minimally Conscious State in Children Admitted to Inpatient Rehabilitation.

Objective: To examine the utility of head and trunk control, assessed using the Physical Abilities and Mobility Scale, for predicting emergence from a minimally conscious state (eMCS) among children with acquired brain injury admitted to inpatient rehabilitation in a disorder of consciousness (DoC).

Design: Retrospective study.

Setting: Pediatric inpatient rehabilitation hospital.

Inter-rater Reliability of the Revised Physical and Neurological Examination of Subtle Signs (PANESS) scored using video review.

The Physical and Neurological Examination of Subtle Signs (PANESS) is a brief neuromotor exam designed for use in children. This study examined the inter-rater reliability of PANESS scoring using video review in 23 typically developing youth, aged 10-18 years, who were either never-concussed or evaluated following clinical recovery from concussion. Moderate to excellent inter-rater reliability was identified across PANESS subscores and total score.

Randomized controlled trial of cognitive refocusing versus stimulus control treatment for college insomnia: feasibility of a brief, electronic-based, and peer-led approach.

Objective: Performance of Cognitive Refocusing Treatment for Insomnia (CRT-I) relative to stimulus control treatment (SCT) remains unknown among college students. This pilot trial compared single-session, electronic-based, peer-led CRT-I to SCT, and as well as awareness-based (AC) and no-treatment (NTC) controls.

Participants: College students ( = 82; =18.

Rasch Properties of the Cognitive and Linguistic Scale and Optimization for Outcome Trajectory Modeling in Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury.

Objectives: To (1) determine if items on the Cognitive and Linguistic Scale (CALS) follow a Rasch distribution and (2) explore the relationship between Rasch-derived Cognitive Ability Estimates and outcome trajectory parameters using a nonlinear mixed-effects modeling approach.

Design: Retrospective study.

Setting: Pediatric inpatient rehabilitation hospital.

Making a Difference: Affective Distress Explains Discrepancy Between Objective and Subjective Cognitive Functioning After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.

Objective: To assess the relationship between subjective cognitive symptoms and objective cognitive test scores in patients after concussion. We additionally examined factors associated with subjective and objective cognitive dysfunction, as well as their discrepancy.

Participants: Eighty-six individuals (65.

Predicting long-term cognitive and neuropathological consequences of moderate to severe traumatic brain injury: Review and theoretical framework.

Prognostic modeling in moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) has historically focused primarily on the projection of crude outcomes such as the risk of mortality and disability. Initial work in this area has perpetuated the notion that prognosis after moderate to severe TBI can be measured as a single, static, and dichotomous outcome. However, more recent conceptualizations describe moderate to severe TBI as the initiation of a chronic disease state with high levels of inter-individual variability in terms of symptom manifestation and disease progression.

Exploratory study of sport-related concussion effects on peripheral micro-RNA expression.

Objective: Explore changes in micro-RNA (miRNA) expression in blood after sport-related concussion (SRC) in collegiate athletes.

Methods: Twenty-seven collegiate athletes (~41% male, ~75% white, age 18.8 ± 0.

Concussion BASICS III: Serum biomarker changes following sport-related concussion.

Objective: To evaluate changes in serum biomarker concentrations (β-amyloid peptide 42 [Aβ], total tau, ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolyzing enzyme L1, S100 calcium binding protein B [S100B], glial fibrillary acidic protein [GFAP], microtubule associated protein 2 [MAP2], and 2',3'-cyclic-nucleotide 3'-phosphodiesterase [CNPase]) after sport-related concussion (SRC) in a sample of collegiate athletes. Associations with clinical outcomes were also investigated.

Methods: Participants in this case-control study included 36 athletes (50% male, 61% white, aged 19.

The Role of Executive Functioning and Academic Achievement in the Academic Self-Concept of Children and Adolescents Referred for Neuropsychological Assessment.

The current study evaluated a model of youth academic self-concept which incorporates practical executive functioning behaviors and academic achievement. Though greater academic achievement has been linked to both positive self-concept and better executive functioning, these constructs have not been examined simultaneously. It was hypothesized that academic achievement would mediate the association between problems with executive functioning and academic self-concept such that youth with more problems with executive functioning would have lower academic achievement and, in turn, lower academic self-concept.