Publications by authors named "Ingrid Emanuelson"
Background: Physical activity can enhance cognitive functions in both animals and humans. We hypothesized that physically active video gaming could: i) improve cognitive functions and ii) improve the execution of activities of daily living among survivors of childhood brain tumors.
Methods: Children 7 to 17 years old who completed treatment, including radiotherapy, for a brain tumor 1 to 5 years earlier were randomized to either intervention or waiting list.
Finding methods to describe subcortical processes assisting cognition is an important concern for clinical neuropsychological practice. In this study, we reviewed the literature concerning the relationship between a neuropsychological instrument and the underlying neural substructure. We examined evidence indicating that one of the oldest neuropsychological tests still in use, the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT), includes reliable indicators of hippocampal integrity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: We investigated whether active video gaming (AVG) could bring about regular, enjoyable, physical exercise in children treated for brain tumours, what level of physical activity could be reached and if the children's physical functioning improved.
Methods: Thirteen children, aged 7-17 years, were randomised to either AVG or waiting-list. After 10-12 weeks they crossed-over.
With the aim of describing variability in the long-term outcome of quality of life after neurosurgically treated pediatric traumatic brain injury, mostly self-reports of 21 individuals with mild or moderate/severe injury were gathered using Mayo-Portland Adaptability Inventory in telephone interviews 13 years aftyer injury. A majority of the participants reported brain injury-related problems. The median outcome on Mayo-Portland Adaptability Inventory was mild to moderate limitations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To describe the impaired fine-motor skills in patients with traumatic brain injury acquired in childhood.
Design: A total of 165 patients with traumatic brain injury, aged 0-17 years, injured during the period 1987-1991, were identified. Fifteen years post-injury a questionnaire was sent to the patients.
Motor proficiency in children with mild traumatic brain injury compared with a control group.
J Rehabil Med
September 2013
Objective: To assess motor proficiency and movement disorders in children with mild traumatic brain injury compared with an uninjured control group. Inclusion criteria were based on the definitions issued by the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine.
Subjects: A group of 27 children with mild traumatic brain injury (age range 4-17 years) and a control group of 79 healthy children.
Primary Objective: During childhood, the central nervous system is in a state of rapid development which can be interrupted by a traumatic brain injury (TBI). This study aimed to describe if and how TBI during childhood influences health and life situation, 5-8 years later.
Research Design: A case-control retrospective design was employed for the assessment of 61 adolescents and young adults with a mild, moderate or severe TBI and 229 matched controls from a normative group (16-24 years).
Cognitive consequences of the treatment of medulloblastoma among children.
Pediatr Neurol
January 2011
Progress in the treatment of medulloblastoma has resulted in increased survival among children. However, effective treatment, especially radiation therapy, produces negative consequences in the cognitive development of children, in terms of decreased intelligence quotients. Determining the factors underlying this decrease may influence the types of rehabilitation needed by children who undergo treatment for medulloblastoma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Attention could be categorized into sustained, selective, shifting, divided and attention span. The primary objective was to evaluate the type of attention deficits that occurs after paediatric traumatic brain injury.
Methods: Keywords were used such as 'attention', 'child', 'traumatic', 'brain' and 'injury' on MEDLINE articles published in 1991-2009.
Objective: This study is a population-based, retrospective follow-up study of neuropsychological functions after severe and moderate TBI.
Methods: One hundred and sixty-five survivors of TBI injured in 1987-1991 in the 0-17-year age group were identified. Of the traceable individuals (149), 53 patients who sustained injury at a mean of 9.
Objective: To explore the cognitive long-term outcome of two cohorts of patients neurosurgically treated for childhood traumatic brain injury (CTBI), either in 1987-1991 according to an older concept or 1997-2001 with a stronger emphasis on volume targeted interventions.
Research Design And Methods: Participants in the two cohorts were subject to an extensive neuropsychological assessment, 13.2 and 6.
The purpose of this study was to examine the use of a descriptive taxonomy for assessment of communicative abilities, the Pragmatic Protocol, in a rehabilitation setting with brain-injured children and adolescents. Eight severely brain-damaged children/youths were assessed with the Pragmatic Protocol during an intensive 6-week rehabilitation period. The nature and extent of communicative functioning was rated independently by a speech language pathologist and a rehabilitation assistant.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To study the concurrent validity and the inter-rater reliability of the Post-Concussion Symptoms Questionnaire.
Design: The approach was to study the concurrent validity of the Post-Concussion Symptoms Questionnaire when used as an interview questionnaire compared with a self-report questionnaire administered by the patients. The inter-rater reliability was also studied when 2 different raters administered the Post-Concussion Symptoms Questionnaire interview.
Objective: Outline the annual incidence of mild traumatic brain injury in children, aged 0-17 years, using the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine classification and record the presence of new symptoms up to six months after injury.
Settings And Methods: The study population comprised all the children in the age group of 0-17 years (a total of 40,984) in an administrative district in south-western Sweden. All the individuals registered in the Brain Injury Register, during the periods 1 January to 30 June 1999 and 1 April to 30 September 2000, fulfilling the inclusion criteria defined by American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, were included.
The aim of this study was to investigate health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in a population-based group of young adults with serious traumatic brain injury (TBI) acquired 10 years earlier. In the time period 1987--1991, all 165 residents (<18 years of age) in the south-western health care region of Sweden who had suffered a serious TBI were followed up. Of these, 109 (67%) participated in this follow-up study, which was conducted using the 15-dimension (15D) HRQoL instrument.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To investigate the impact of time since injury on neuropsychological and psychosocial outcome after serious TBI in childhood or adolescence.
Methods: The subjects were eight patients with serious TBI sustained at a mean age of 14 years who had been assessed neuropsychologically at 1, 7 and 14 years after TBI. A retrospective longitudinal design was chosen to describe the development in six neuropsychological domains on the basis of the assessments.