Examining the relationship between cognition and driving performance in multiple sclerosis.

Objective: To identify cognitive predictors of driving performance after multiple sclerosis (MS).

Design: Prospective design examining predictive value of cognitive measures on driving performance.

Setting: All data were collected in an outpatient research setting and an outpatient driver rehabilitation program.

Stopping behavior in a VR driving simulator: a new clinical measure for the assessment of driving.

The driving privilege is a critical component of independent living for individuals who have acquired a brain injury. To date, measures of driving capacity following neurological compromise remain limited to gross performance measures, such as subjective behind the wheel evaluations. The current study demonstrates the use of a virtual reality (VR) driving simulator to provide objective and precise measures of driving behavior not previously available for clinical assessment.

Driving behaviors following brain injury: self-report and motor vehicle records.

Background: This study examined both objective and subjective measures of driving behaviors occurring in the past 5 years for 47 individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and 22 healthy controls (HC), matched for age, gender, education, and years of driving experience.

Results: Overall, subtle descriptive differences in driving characteristics were observed between the two groups. However, comparison of self-reported and documented reports of aberrant driving behaviors did not reveal a significantly greater number of accidents or violations among TBI participants compared with HC drivers.