Traumatic brain injury history and baseline symptoms outweigh sex differences for risk of concussion in a sample of collegiate athletes.

Objective: To test the hypothesis that a history of traumatic brain injury (TBI) prior to the collegiate pre-season is associated with risk for re-injury. We also investigate sex differences, cognitive functioning, and self-reported concussion symptoms and their associations with concussion risk.

Methods: A longitudinal cohort study consisting of collegiate athletes ( = 212) who completed consecutive preseason evaluations (P1 and P2) between 2012 and 2015, averaging 12.

Long-Term Cognitive and Psychological Functioning in Post-Electroconvulsive Therapy Patients.

Objective: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is associated with positive outcomes for treatment-resistant mood disorders in the short term. However, there is limited research on long-term cognitive or psychological changes beyond 1 year after -ECT. This study evaluated long-term outcomes in cognitive functioning, psychiatric symptoms, and quality of life for individuals who had undergone ECT.

Classification accuracy of individual and combined executive functioning embedded performance validity measures in mild traumatic brain injury.

The development of more sophisticated performance validity measures is important due to concerns with coaching as well as providing clinicians with a greater variety of options when assessing performance validity. Examinees with noncredible performance may find it more difficult to elude detection by PVTs derived from arithmetical summation or logistic regression. The present study evaluated the classification accuracy of several executive functioning (EF) variables as PVTs both individually and when combined into derived variables.

The Relationship Between Traumatic Brain Injury and Criminality in Juvenile Offenders.

Objective: To examine the relationship between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and criminal behavior in youth who are incarcerated or on probation in Texas.

Setting: Seven juvenile justice facilities.

Participants: Juvenile offenders in state or county correctional facilities or on probation.

Traumatic brain injury as a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease: current knowledge and future directions.

There is growing concern about the late effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI). This scoping review summarizes clinical research from the past 10 years that evaluates the relationship between TBI and Alzheimer's disease. This review identified five studies that found increased risk for dementia after TBI, two studies that found no increased risk and four studies that found a relationship only under certain conditions or in specified subsamples.

2015 American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology (AACN) student affairs committee survey of neuropsychology trainees.

Objective: Surveys of practicing neuropsychologists have been conducted for years; however, there have been no comprehensive surveys of neuropsychology trainees, which may result in important issues being overlooked by the profession. This survey assessed trainees' experiences in areas such as student debt, professional development, and training satisfaction.

Method: Survey items were written by a task force of the AACN Student Affairs Committee (SAC), and neuropsychology trainees were recruited via neuropsychology-focused listservs.

Long-term consequences of electrical injury: neuropsychological predictors of adjustment.

Objective: Electrical injury (EI) produces an assortment of consequences for individuals. Survivors perform poorly on measures of attention and mental speed, memory, and emotional functioning. Moreover, sequelae are not always reported immediately following injury and often increase over the months following injury.

Derivation of a Cross-Domain Embedded Performance Validity Measure in Traumatic Brain Injury.

Objective: Performance validity assessment is increasingly considered standard practice in neuropsychological evaluations. The current study extended research on logistically derived performance validity tests (PVTs) by utilizing neuropsychological measures from multiple cognitive domains instead of from a single measure or a single cognitive domain.

Method: A logistic-derived PVT was calculated using several measures from multiple cognitive domains, including verbal memory (California Verbal Learning Test-II Trial 5, Total Hits, and False Positives), attention (Brief Test of Attention Total score), and language (Boston Naming Test T-score, and Animal Fluency T-score).

Psychiatric Outcome Over a Decade After Electrical Injury: Depression as a Predictor of Long-Term Adjustment.

Electrical injury (EI) produces a variety of physical, cognitive, and emotional consequences. Psychiatric and neurocognitive symptoms may complicate survivors' psychosocial adjustment and ability to return to work. However, due to a paucity of longitudinal research, the long-term course of EI remains poorly understood.