@article{ref1,
title="Psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents six-to-twelve months after mild traumatic brain injury",
journal="Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences",
year="2013",
author="Max, Jeffrey E. and Pardo, David and Hanten, Gerri and Schachar, Russell J. and Saunders, Ann E. and Ewing-Cobbs, Linda and Chapman, Sandra B. and Dennis, Maureen and Wilde, Elisabeth A. and Bigler, Erin D. and Thompson, Wesley K. and Yang, Tony T. and Levin, Harvey S.",
volume="25",
number="4",
pages="272-282",
abstract="The objective of this study was to understand how novel psychiatric disorders (NPD) in children with mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) are related to pre-injury variables, injury-related variables, and concurrent neurocognitive outcome.   A group of 79 children, ages 5 to 14 years, who had experienced MTBI, were studied from consecutive hospital admissions with semistructured psychiatric interviews soon after injury (baseline); 60 children were reassessed 12 months post-injury. Standardized instruments were used to assess injury severity; lesion characteristics; pre-injury variables, including psychiatric disorder, family psychiatric history, family functioning, socioeconomic status, psychosocial adversity, adaptive functioning, and post-injury neurocognitive and adaptive functioning.   NPD occurred in 17 of 60 participants (28%) in the 6-12-month interval after injury, with disorders that were significantly associated with socioeconomic status, psychosocial adversity, estimated pre-injury academic functioning, and concurrent deficits in adaptive functioning, academic performance, processing speed, memory, and expressive language. NPD was not significantly associated with pre-injury adaptive functioning, injury severity, family psychiatric history, pre-injury psychiatric disorder, lesion location, gender, or age at injury.   These findings suggest that the short-term psychiatric morbidity associated with MTBI in children occurs more commonly than previously reported and is related to both pre-injury social factors and concurrent neurocognitive functioning.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0895-0172",
doi="10.1176/appi.neuropsych.12040078",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.neuropsych.12040078"
}