Screening for History of Traumatic Brain Injury Among Women Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence.

Unlabelled: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a common chronically debilitating consequence of intimate-partner violence (IPV). Diagnosis and effective treatment are precluded by poor detection and lack of uniform practice guidelines for TBI screening in IPV. Although there are several TBI-screening tools commonly used in clinical and research practices, their applicability to this unique and vulnerable population is unclear.

An evidence-based review of cognitive rehabilitation in medical conditions affecting cognitive function.

Objectives: To perform a methodical review of the evidence available for the efficacy of cognitive rehabilitation in individuals with diagnosed medical conditions known to affect cognitive function, and to establish evidence-based recommendations for clinical practice, as appropriate.

Data Sources: Ovid Medline and PubMed literature searches were conducted using the terms cognition, cognitive, crossed with the terms rehabilitation, remediation, retraining, training, crossed with 11 medical diagnostic categories. Articles through December 2008 were accessed, with a resulting 2284 abstracts.

Methodological quality of research on cognitive rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury.

Objective: To evaluate the methodological quality of research on cognitive rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Data Sources: Secondary analysis of studies identified in prior systematic reviews of cognitive rehabilitation.

Study Selection: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and observational studies involving exclusively or primarily participants with TBI.

Rehabilitative management of patients with disorders of consciousness: grand rounds.

Background: There are no standards of care to guide the selection of rehabilitation assessment and treatment procedures for patients with disorders of consciousness. Recently, consensus-based recommendations for management of patients in the vegetative and minimally conscious states have been developed and disseminated in neurology and neurorehabilitation. This is an important first step toward achieving evidence-based guidelines of care.

A ghost of retrieval past: a functional network of alpha EEG related to source memory in elderly humans.

The electrophysiological data from a study of source memory in young and older adults were analyzed in the frequency domain in order to find functional networks of alpha band activity related to source memory performance and cortical reorganization with age. Participants were instructed to remember noun pairs embedded in sentences, with sentences grouped into two temporally distinct lists. At test, in response to noun probes, participants made old/new, followed by source (i.

Dementia in community-dwelling elderly patients: A comparison of survey data, medicare claims, cognitive screening, reported symptoms, and activity limitations.

Background And Objective: Population-based estimates of dementia can vary widely depending on the data source and methodology used to assess cognitive impairment. The aim of this study was to assess individual and composite measures of dementia constructed using survey and administratively collected medical data for the purpose of improving insight into inherent and avoidable biases and the interpretation of these measures.

Methods: A national survey of 5089 community-dwelling elderly persons was linked to 5 years of Medicare claims.