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{ Monthly Archives } May 2006

Measuring sustained attention after traumatic brain injury: differences in key findings from the sustained attention to response task (SART).

by John Whyte, MD, PhD, Patricia Grieb-Neff, Christopher Gantz, Marcia Polansky. Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, PA, United States. Clinical reports after traumatic brain injury (TBI) suggest frequent difficulties with sustained attention, but their objective measurement has proved difficult. In 1997, Robertson and colleagues reported on a new sustained attention assessment [...]

May 1, 2006 Attention
Brain injury
Diseases & Disorders
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Continuous ASL perfusion fMRI investigation of higher cognition: quantification of tonic CBF changes during sustained attention and working memory tasks.

by Junghoon Kim, PhD, John Whyte, MD, PhD, Jiongjiong Wang, Hengyi Rao, Kathy Z. Tang, John A. Detre, MD. Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Arterial spin labeling (ASL) perfusion fMRI is an emerging method in clinical neuroimaging. Its non-invasiveness, absence of low frequency noise, and ability to quantify the [...]

May 1, 2006 Attention
Executive function
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Dimensions of disordered attention in traumatic brain injury: further validation of the Moss Attention Rating Scale.

by Tessa Hart, PhD, John Whyte, MD, PhD, Scott Millis, PhD, Rita Bode, PhD, James Malec, PhD, Risa Nakase Richardson, PhD, Flora Hammond, MD.Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute and Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. OBJECTIVES: To investigate the factor structure of disordered attention in moderate to severe, acute [...]

May 1, 2006 Attention
Brain injury
Diseases & Disorders
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