TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents six-to-twelve months after mild traumatic brain injury
JO  - Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences
A1  - Max, Jeffrey E.
A1  - Pardo, David
A1  - Hanten, Gerri
A1  - Schachar, Russell J.
A1  - Saunders, Ann E.
A1  - Ewing-Cobbs, Linda
A1  - Chapman, Sandra B.
A1  - Dennis, Maureen
A1  - Wilde, Elisabeth A.
A1  - Bigler, Erin D.
A1  - Thompson, Wesley K.
A1  - Yang, Tony T.
A1  - Levin, Harvey S.
SP  - 272
EP  - 282
VL  - 25
IS  - 4
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0895-0172
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.neuropsych.12040078
ID  - ref1
ER  -