Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

摘要: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) in juveniles resulting from closed-head trauma is a major public health problem (Gerring & Vasa, 2014; Yeates, 2010). In the United States most recent information Centers for Disease Control reported that an average of 700,000 TBIs occurred each year between 2002 and 2006 among individuals ages 0 19 years, leading to 60,000 hospitalizations 6,000 deaths (Faul, Xu, Wald, Coronado, Sequelae pediatric TBI (PTBI) include numerous neuropsychological impairments, one common which involves attention deficits (Yeates, Further, beginning with classic case Phineas Gage 1848 more modern Gages, research has shown affecting brain’s frontal lobes* can result symptoms similar attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD; Damasio, 1994; Mateer Williams, 1991). For example, Gage, Elliot, well-functioning male his thirties, had surgery remove tumor as well tissue ventromedial prefrontal cortex been damaged by tumor. Shortly thereafter, despite fact intellectual language functioning remained intact, he became significantly impaired daily