It is not just stress: parent personality in raising a deaf child.

This study examined the impact and predictive ability of parental personality and perceived stress on behavior problems of their deaf child. One hundred and fourteen parents with a deaf child completed measures of personality, parenting stress, and child behavioral functioning. Higher parental neuroticism, which reflects a susceptibility to emotional and psychological distress, significantly predicted greater internalizing behaviors in younger deaf children, whereas higher levels of parenting stress and lower levels of parental conscientiousness were strongest predictors for externalizing behaviors.

Zinc deficiency in Mexican American children: influence of zinc and other micronutrients on T cells, cytokines, and antiinflammatory plasma proteins.

Background: The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey suggested some Mexican American children are at risk of zinc deficiency.

Objective: We measured the effects of zinc and micronutrients or of micronutrients alone on indexes of cell-mediated immunity and antiinflammatory plasma proteins.

Design: Subjects (n = 54) aged 6-7 y were randomly assigned and treated in double-blind fashion in equal numbers with 20 mg Zn (as sulfate) and micronutrients or with micronutrients alone 5 d/wk for 10 wk.

Cholinergic augmentation with donepezil enhances recovery in short-term memory and sustained attention after traumatic brain injury.

Objective: To examine effects of donepezil on short-term memory and sustained attention in postacute patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Design: A 24-week, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind crossover trial.

Setting: Outpatient clinics in 2 teaching hospitals.

Dynamic imaging in mild traumatic brain injury: support for the theory of medial temporal vulnerability.

Objective: To determine whether patients with mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) and persistent postconcussive symptoms have evidence of temporal lobe injury on dynamic imaging.

Design: Case series.

Setting: An academic medical center.

Magnetization transfer imaging in the detection of injury associated with mild head trauma.

Background And Purpose: Most traumatic brain injuries are classified as mild, yet in many instances cognitive deficits result. The purpose of this study was to investigate possible relationships between quantitative magnetization transfer imaging (MTI) and neurocognitive findings in a cohort of patients with mild head trauma but negative findings on conventional MR images.

Methods: We examined 13 patients and 10 healthy volunteers with a standard MR protocol including fast spin-echo and gradient-echo imaging, to which was added quantitative MTI.