Pre-injury psychosocial and demographic predictors of long-term functional outcomes post-TBI.

Objective: To determine whether pre-injury psychosocial and demographic factors differentially influence long-term functional outcomes post-TBI.

Setting: Urban rehabilitation hospital.

Participants: 149 individuals, ages 16-75, who sustained a mild complicated, moderate or severe TBI, were enrolled in a TBI Model System (TBIMS), and had functional outcome data five-15 years post-injury.

Cognitive ability predicts motor learning on a virtual reality game in patients with TBI.

Background: Virtual reality games and simulations have been utilized successfully for motor rehabilitation of individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Little is known, however, how TBI-related cognitive decline affects learning of motor tasks in virtual environments.

Objective: To fill this gap, we examined learning within a virtual reality game involving various reaching motions in 14 patients with TBI and 15 healthy individuals with different cognitive abilities.