Role and Outcomes of Supported Community Living Programs in Post-Hospital Brain Injury Rehabilitation Programs.

Objectives: (1) To determine the proportion of participants admitted to supported community living (SCL) programs over the course of 5 years who improve, decline, or maintain functioning and community integration and (2) to examine the associations of time since injury, time in program, and age to their functional trajectory.

Setting: Data from SCL programs serving individuals with acquired brain injury (ABI).

Participants: 104 individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI), stroke, or other ABI.

Evaluation of Posthospital Brain Injury Rehabilitation Outcomes With Quasi-Experimental Controls.

Objective: To further evaluate, using quasi-experimental methodologies, posthospital brain injury rehabilitation outcomes described in an accompanying report of a large observational study (n = 2120).

Setting: Data from Intensive Rehabilitation (IR: Residential Neurobehavioral, Residential Neurorehabilitation, Home and Community Neurorehabilitation, Day Treatment, Outpatient Neurorehabilitation) and Supported Living (SL) programs serving individuals with acquired brain injury (ABI).

Participants: Two hundred twenty-eight individuals with traumatic brain injury, stroke, or other ABI in propensity score analysis; 1344 in analysis by extent of recommended treatment completed (TC) rating.

Outcomes of Six Specific Types of Post-Hospital Brain Injury Rehabilitation Programs.

Objective: Evaluate outcomes of intensive posthospital brain injury rehabilitation programs compared to supported living (SL) programs; explore variations in outcome by diagnostic category (traumatic brain injury, stroke, and other acquired brain injury [ABI]) and specific program type.

Setting: Data were obtained from Residential Neurobehavioral, Residential Neurorehabilitation, Home and Community Neurorehabilitation, Day Treatment, Outpatient Neurorehabilitation, and SL programs serving individuals with ABI.

Participants: A total of 2120 individuals with traumatic brain injury, stroke, or other ABI participated in this study.

Distinguishing Characteristics of Admissions to Various Types of Posthospital Brain Injury Rehabilitation Programs.

Objective: Describe and compare the demographic characteristics and disability profiles of individuals admitted to 6 types of posthospital brain injury rehabilitation (PHBIR) programs.

Setting: Data from Residential Neurobehavioral, Residential Neurorehabilitation, Home and Community Neurorehabilitation, Day Treatment, Outpatient Neurorehabilitation, and Supported Living programs serving individuals with acquired brain injury (ABI).

Participants: Two thousand twenty-eight individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI), stroke, or other ABI.

Rasch Analysis of the Mayo-Portland Adaptability Inventory for Posthospital Brain Injury Rehabilitation.

Objectives: (1) Reexamine the item structure and reliability of the Mayo-Portland Adaptability Inventory (4th ed; MPAI-4) through Rasch analysis of admission and discharge scores for a large sample of adults with acquired brain injury (ABI) who participated in various types of posthospital brain injury rehabilitation (PHBIR) programs; (2) compare differential item functioning (DIF) for traumatic brain injury (TBI), stroke and other ABI; and (3) explore the viability of more specific subscales in addition to the established indices.

Setting: Data from Residential Neurobehavioral, Residential Neurorehabilitation, Home and Community, Day Treatment, and Outpatient rehabilitation programs serving individuals with ABI.

Participants: A total of 2154 individuals with TBI, stroke, or other ABI.

Unexpected Non-Maternally Derived Anti-PP1P in an 11-Week-Old Patient.

Alloantibody formation at less than 4 months of age is rare. Most antibodies identified in these patients are maternally derived. Anti-PP1P was detected in an 11-week-old infant that was not maternally derived.

Acute hemolytic transfusion reaction in a pediatric patient following transfusion of apheresis platelets.

The practice of transfusing ABO-incompatible platelets, driven primarily by concerns about inventory management, has been considered generally safe because the accompanying plasma is usually diluted in the recipient's total blood volume. However, if the platelet product contains a large volume of plasma or a high concentration of incompatible isoagglutinin, there may be hemolysis of the recipient's red cells. Patients with a small blood volume, such as babies and children, are considered to be at particular risk for such a complication.

Levels-of-processing effect on word recognition in schizophrenia.

Background: Individuals with schizophrenia have difficulty organizing words semantically to facilitate encoding. This is commonly attributed to organizational rather than semantic processing limitations. By requiring participants to classify and encode words on either a shallow (e.

An fMRI study of facial emotion processing in patients with schizophrenia.

Objective: Emotion processing deficits are notable in schizophrenia. The authors evaluated cerebral blood flow response in schizophrenia patients during facial emotion processing to test the hypothesis of diminished limbic activation related to emotional relevance of facial stimuli.

Method: Fourteen patients with schizophrenia and 14 matched comparison subjects viewed facial displays of happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and disgust as well as neutral faces.

Brain activation during facial emotion processing.

Functional neuroimaging studies have helped identify neural systems involved in cognitive processing and more recently have indicated limbic activation to emotional stimuli. Some functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have reported increased amygdala response during exposure to emotional stimuli while others have not shown such activation. The present study was designed to test the hypothesis that activation of the amygdala is related to the relevance of the emotional valence of stimuli.