@article{ref1,
title="Predictive visual tracking: specificity in mild traumatic brain injury and sleep deprivation",
journal="Military medicine",
year="2014",
author="Maruta, Jun and Heaton, Kristin J. and Maule, Alexis L. and Ghajar, Jamshid",
volume="179",
number="6",
pages="619-625",
abstract="We tested whether reduced cognitive function associated with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and sleep deprivation can be detected and distinguished using indices of predictive visual tracking. A circular visual tracking test was given to 13 patients with acute mTBI (recruited within 2 weeks of injury), 127 normal control subjects, and 43 healthy subjects who were fatigued by 26-hour sleep deprivation. Eye movement was monitored with video-oculography. In the mTBI-related portion of the study, visual tracking performance of acute mTBI patients was significantly worse than normal subjects (p < 0.001). In the sleep-deprivation-related portion of the study, no change was detected between the two baseline measures separated by 2 to 3 weeks, but the 26-hour sleep deprivation significantly degraded the visual tracking performance (p < 0.001). The mTBI subjects had substantially worse visual tracking than sleep-deprived subjects that could also be identified with different visual tracking indices, indicating possible different neurophysiological mechanisms. <br><br>RESULTS suggest that cognitive impairment associated with mTBI and fatigue may be triaged with the aid of visual tracking measures.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0026-4075",
doi="10.7205/MILMED-D-13-00420",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.7205/MILMED-D-13-00420"
}