Publications by authors named "Adrian Svingos"

Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of disability in children. Cognitive rehabilitation for this population is critical for their long-term health outcomes. This trial aims to evaluate the efficacy of a virtual reality-based program (VICT) for training executive functions in children with TBI.

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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.

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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.

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Adolescents who are clinically recovered from concussion continue to show subtle motor impairment on neurophysiological and behavioral measures. However, there is limited information on brain-behavior relationships of persistent motor impairment following clinical recovery from concussion. We examined the relationship between subtle motor performance and functional connectivity of the brain in adolescents with a history of concussion, status post-symptom resolution, and subjective return to baseline.

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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.

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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.

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Article Synopsis
  • Severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a serious problem that can lead to long-term disabilities or death, making it hard to predict outcomes for patients.
  • Researchers used a model called the IMPACT Lab to see if it could help predict how people would do 7-10 years after a TBI, and also looked at certain fluids in the body that might help with this prediction.
  • The study found the IMPACT Lab model was pretty good at predicting outcomes, and higher risk scores meant worse long-term health and thinking abilities for those who survived.
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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.

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The Memory Validity Profile (MVP) is a standalone performance validity test developed specifically for use with children. Prior research has demonstrated the MVP's strength in its ease of administration to children with a wide range of intellectual abilities. However, it has been found to lack sensitivity in detecting noncredible performance in select clinical populations using published cutoffs.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Children with conditions affecting cognitive processes experience high levels of sleep disturbance, which may further compound the cognitive ramifications of their disorders. Despite this, existing studies in this area have been primarily confined to only particular diagnostic groups and/or a limited scope of sleep and cognitive parameters. The current study characterized the nature of sleep problems and examined the relationship between a wide range of sleep-related problems and cognitive functioning in a large ( = 103) diagnostically heterogeneous sample of youth (aged 6-16) referred for neuropsychological assessment.

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