HARVEY contact LEVIN

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Affiliation: Baylor College of Medicine
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Prediction of cognitive sequelae based on abnormal computed tomography findings in children following mild traumatic brain injury
    Harvey S Levin
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    J Neurosurg Pediatr 1:461-70. 2008
  2. ncbi The relation of cognitive control to social outcome after paediatric TBI: Implications for intervention
    Harvey S Levin
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Baylor College of Medicine, Hoston, Texas 77030, USA
    Dev Neurorehabil 12:320-9. 2009
  3. ncbi Symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder following traumatic brain injury in children
    Harvey Levin
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    J Dev Behav Pediatr 28:108-18. 2007
  4. ncbi Diffusion tensor imaging of mild to moderate blast-related traumatic brain injury and its sequelae
    Harvey S Levin
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
    J Neurotrauma 27:683-94. 2010
  5. ncbi Neuroplasticity and brain imaging research: implications for rehabilitation
    Harvey S Levin
    Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Arch Phys Med Rehabil 87:S1. 2006
  6. ncbi Childhood head injury and metacognitive processes in language and memory
    Gerri Hanten
    Cognitive Science Laboratory, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehbilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Dev Neuropsychol 25:85-106. 2004
  7. ncbi Altered brain activation during cognitive control in patients with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury
    Randall S Scheibel
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Neurorehabil Neural Repair 21:36-45. 2007
  8. ncbi Diffusion tensor imaging in the corpus callosum in children after moderate to severe traumatic brain injury
    Elisabeth A Wilde
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
    J Neurotrauma 23:1412-26. 2006
  9. ncbi Vulnerability of the anterior commissure in moderate to severe pediatric traumatic brain injury
    Elisabeth A Wilde
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, 1709 Dryden Road, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    J Child Neurol 21:769-76. 2006
  10. ncbi Changes in working memory after traumatic brain injury in children
    Harvey S Levin
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
    Neuropsychology 18:240-7. 2004

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Publications74

  1. ncbi Prediction of cognitive sequelae based on abnormal computed tomography findings in children following mild traumatic brain injury
    Harvey S Levin
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    J Neurosurg Pediatr 1:461-70. 2008
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  2. ncbi The relation of cognitive control to social outcome after paediatric TBI: Implications for intervention
    Harvey S Levin
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Baylor College of Medicine, Hoston, Texas 77030, USA
    Dev Neurorehabil 12:320-9. 2009
    ..Cognitive control was measured with the Sternberg Task (memory) and the Flanker Task (resistance to interference). Relations to social outcome (Vineland Adaptive Behavioural Scales-Socialization and Communications domains) were measured...
  3. ncbi Symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder following traumatic brain injury in children
    Harvey Levin
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    J Dev Behav Pediatr 28:108-18. 2007
    ..The baseline assessment was performed within 1 month post-injury to establish preinjury diagnosis...
  4. ncbi Diffusion tensor imaging of mild to moderate blast-related traumatic brain injury and its sequelae
    Harvey S Levin
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
    J Neurotrauma 27:683-94. 2010
    ..Our data do not show WM injury in mild to moderate blast-related TBI in veterans despite their residual symptoms and difficulty in verbal memory. Limitations of the study and implications for future research are also discussed...
  5. ncbi Neuroplasticity and brain imaging research: implications for rehabilitation
    Harvey S Levin
    Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Arch Phys Med Rehabil 87:S1. 2006
    ..The articles in this supplement also report the potential therapeutic application of stimulation techniques to enhance reorganization of function...
  6. ncbi Childhood head injury and metacognitive processes in language and memory
    Gerri Hanten
    Cognitive Science Laboratory, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehbilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Dev Neuropsychol 25:85-106. 2004
    ..However, metalinguistic knowledge in the form of adequate repairs of anomalous sentences, was preserved. Results are discussed in terms of effects of age at test and injury severity...
  7. ncbi Altered brain activation during cognitive control in patients with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury
    Randall S Scheibel
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Neurorehabil Neural Repair 21:36-45. 2007
    ..Persistent deficits in cognitive control have been documented following traumatic brain injury (TBI) but are inconsistently related to the presence and location of focal lesions...
  8. ncbi Diffusion tensor imaging in the corpus callosum in children after moderate to severe traumatic brain injury
    Elisabeth A Wilde
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
    J Neurotrauma 23:1412-26. 2006
    ..DTI may be useful in identifying biomarkers related to DAI and outcome of TBI in children...
  9. ncbi Vulnerability of the anterior commissure in moderate to severe pediatric traumatic brain injury
    Elisabeth A Wilde
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, 1709 Dryden Road, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    J Child Neurol 21:769-76. 2006
    ..This is the first systematic examination of anterior commissure atrophy following traumatic brain injury using in vivo quantitative MRI and diffusion tensor imaging fiber tracking in pediatric subjects...
  10. ncbi Changes in working memory after traumatic brain injury in children
    Harvey S Levin
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
    Neuropsychology 18:240-7. 2004
    ..The Left Frontal Lesions x Age interaction approached significance. Mechanisms mediating late decline in WM and the effects of left frontal lesions are discussed...
  11. ncbi Subject ordered pointing task performance following severe traumatic brain injury in adults
    Gerri Hanten
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
    Brain Inj 17:871-82. 2003
    ..It was concluded that the subject ordered pointing task is useful in identifying memory deficits in persons with brain injury...
  12. ncbi Components of executive function in typically developing and head-injured children
    Bonnie Brookshire
    Cognitive Neurscience Laboratory, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Dev Neuropsychol 25:61-83. 2004
    ..The factor scores could be used in clinical trials to facilitate data reduction and appear to have validity as indicators of TBI outcome...
  13. ncbi Five-year follow-up of unilateral posteroventral pallidotomy in Parkinson's disease
    Adriana M Strutt
    Departments of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Surg Neurol 71:551-8. 2009
    ..Although some studies reported few cognitive changes, other investigations have more consistently shown both transient and long-term cognitive decline postoperatively...
  14. ncbi Prospective memory in pediatric traumatic brain injury: a preliminary study
    Stephen R McCauley
    Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Mediccine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Dev Neuropsychol 25:5-20. 2004
    ..Further, there was a significant cost in RT for performing the PM task during the ongoing category decision task for all groups. The cost in terms of slowed RT increased with greater TBI severity...
  15. ncbi Selective impairment of inhibition after TBI in children
    Harvey S Levin
    Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 6560 Fannin St, Ste 1144, Box 67, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 26:589-97. 2004
    ..Response latency was related to age and task condition, but not group. Severe TBI in children may disrupt development of distributed networks mediating inhibition...
  16. ncbi Psychosocial outcome of TBI in children with unilateral frontal lesions
    Harvey S Levin
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
    J Int Neuropsychol Soc 10:305-16. 2004
    ..Side of lesion had no effect, nor did presence of an extrafrontal lesion (Study 2). Unilateral frontal lesions adversely affect late psychosocial outcome of TBI in children...
  17. ncbi Correlates of social problem solving during the first year after traumatic brain injury in children
    Gerri Hanten
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
    Neuropsychology 22:357-70. 2008
    ..These findings inform studies of social problem-solving skills during the first year post TBI. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)...
  18. ncbi Working memory brain activation following severe traumatic brain injury
    Mary R Newsome
    Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Cortex 43:95-111. 2007
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  19. ncbi Diffusion tensor imaging in relation to cognitive and functional outcome of traumatic brain injury in children
    Harvey S Levin
    Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Alliance, Baylor College of Medicine, University of Texas Houston Medical School, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    J Head Trauma Rehabil 23:197-208. 2008
    ..To investigate the relation of white matter integrity using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to cognitive and functional outcome of moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) in children...
  20. ncbi Feasibility of the Neurological Outcome Scale for Traumatic Brain Injury (NOS-TBI) in adults
    Elisabeth A Wilde
    Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Alliance of Baylor College of Medicine and the Department of Neurology, The University of Texas Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
    J Neurotrauma 27:975-81. 2010
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  21. ncbi Event-based prospective memory performance during subacute recovery following moderate to severe traumatic brain injury in children: Effects of monetary incentives
    Stephen R McCauley
    Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Alliance of Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
    J Int Neuropsychol Soc 16:335-41. 2010
    ..Other strategies to improve EB-PM in these children at a similar point in recovery remain to be identified and evaluated...
  22. ncbi Effects of traumatic brain injury on working memory-related brain activation in adolescents
    Mary R Newsome
    Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, TX 77030, USA
    Neuropsychology 22:419-25. 2008
    ..The overrecruitment of frontal and extrafrontal regions during encoding and retrieval following TBI may represent a compensatory process...
  23. ncbi Effects of severity of traumatic brain injury and brain reserve on cognitive-control related brain activation
    Randall S Scheibel
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
    J Neurotrauma 26:1447-61. 2009
    ..These findings suggest that over-activation is at least partially effective for improving performance and may be compensatory...
  24. ncbi Working memory after traumatic brain injury in children
    Harvey S Levin
    Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Ann Neurol 52:82-8. 2002
    ..The N-back working memory task is feasible for administration to brain-injured children and potentially could be useful for studying brain activation associated with working memory and effects of drug therapy in this group of patients...
  25. ncbi Confirmatory factor structure of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression scale (CES-D) in mild-to-moderate traumatic brain injury
    Stephen R McCauley
    Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Alliance of Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas Houston Medical School, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Brain Inj 20:519-27. 2006
    ..The objective of this study was to investigate the validity of the CES-D in measuring depressive symptoms in patients with mild-to-moderate TBI as it has been rarely used in neurologically compromised populations...
  26. ncbi Incentive effects on event-based prospective memory performance in children and adolescents with traumatic brain injury
    Stephen R McCauley
    Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Alliance of Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
    Neuropsychology 23:201-9. 2009
    ..PM scores were positively and significantly related to age-at-test, but there were no age-at-injury or time-postinjury effects. Overall, these results suggest that event-based PM can be significantly improved in children with severe TBI...
  27. ncbi Postconcussional disorder: Are the DSM-IV criteria an improvement over the ICD-10?
    Stephen R McCauley
    Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Alliance of Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
    J Nerv Ment Dis 193:540-50. 2005
    ..There is no compelling evidence, based on these outcome domains, to suggest which of the two diagnostic criteria sets should be clinically preferred...
  28. ncbi Neuroplasticity following non-penetrating traumatic brain injury
    Harvey S Levin
    Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Brain Inj 17:665-74. 2003
    ..Functional MRI, coupled with DTI and possibly other imaging modalities holds the promise of elucidating mechanisms of neuroplasticity and repair following TBI...
  29. ncbi Diffusion tensor imaging of the cingulum bundle in children after traumatic brain injury
    Elisabeth A Wilde
    Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Alliance of Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
    Dev Neuropsychol 35:333-51. 2010
    ..Finally, cingulum DTI parameters were related to cognitive control measures. DTI detects TBI-related injury to the cingulum, which may facilitate advances in assessment and treatment...
  30. ncbi Patterns of cortical thinning in relation to event-based prospective memory performance three months after moderate to severe traumatic brain injury in children
    Stephen R McCauley
    Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Alliance of Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
    Dev Neuropsychol 35:318-32. 2010
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  31. ncbi Correlates of persistent postconcussional disorder: DSM-IV criteria versus ICD-10
    Stephen R McCauley
    Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Alliance of Baylor College of Medicine, 1709 Dryden Rd, Ste 725, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 30:360-79. 2008
    ..The results demonstrate that despite large differences in the frequency of patients meeting the two diagnostic criteria sets, a clear basis for preferring either the PCD or PCS criteria remains to be determined...
  32. ncbi Brain activation while thinking about the self from another person's perspective after traumatic brain injury in adolescents
    Mary R Newsome
    Newsome, Baylor College of Medicine, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, 1709 Dryden Road, Suite 725, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Neuropsychology 24:139-47. 2010
    ..We postulate that adolescents with moderate to severe TBI recruited alternative neural pathways during perspective-taking because traumatic axonal injury disrupted their fronto-parietal networks mediating social cognition...
  33. ncbi Diffusion tensor imaging of hemispheric asymmetries in the developing brain
    Elisabeth A Wilde
    Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Alliance of Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas Houston Medical School, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 31:205-18. 2009
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  34. ncbi Brain activation during working memory after traumatic brain injury in children
    Mary R Newsome
    Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Neurocase 13:16-24. 2007
    ..Our findings of performance and brain activation changes in children after TBI await longitudinal investigation...
  35. ncbi The Neurological Outcome Scale for Traumatic Brain Injury (NOS-TBI): II. Reliability and convergent validity
    Stephen R McCauley
    Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Alliance of Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas Houston Medical School, and the Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
    J Neurotrauma 27:991-7. 2010
    ..59, p < 0.0001), and the FIM (rho = -0.68, p < 0.0001). These results suggest that the NOS-TBI is a reliable and valid measure of neurological functioning in patients with moderate to severe TBI...
  36. ncbi The Neurological Outcome Scale for Traumatic Brain Injury (NOS-TBI): I. Construct validity
    Elisabeth A Wilde
    Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Alliance of Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas Houston Medical School, and the Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
    J Neurotrauma 27:983-9. 2010
    ..The results suggest that the NOS-TBI is a valid measure of neurological functioning in patients with TBI...
  37. ncbi Depressed mood and memory impairment before and after unilateral posteroventral pallidotomy in Parkinson's disease
    Mario F Dulay
    Department of Neurosurgery at the Methodist Hospital Neurological Institute in Houston, TX 77030, USA
    J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 20:357-63. 2008
    ..The results suggest that depressed mood should be taken into account when interpreting memory test performance in Parkinson's disease surgical candidates both before and after surgery...
  38. ncbi Emotion recognition following pediatric traumatic brain injury: longitudinal analysis of emotional prosody and facial emotion recognition
    Adam T Schmidt
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, United States
    Neuropsychologia 48:2869-77. 2010
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  39. ncbi Clustering and switching in phonemic fluency following pallidotomy for the treatment of Parkinson's disease
    Michele K York
    Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 25:110-21. 2003
    ..However, no significant differences were found for lesion location 6 months following surgery. The findings support the hypothesis that the GPi plays a role in cognitive functioning...
  40. ncbi Selective learning in children after traumatic brain injury: a preliminary study
    Gerri Hanten
    Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Child Neuropsychol 8:107-20. 2002
    ..Furthermore, the effect of TBI on performance was demonstrated to take place at the time of encoding, rather than at retrieval...
  41. ncbi Late proton MR spectroscopy in children after traumatic brain injury: correlation with cognitive outcomes
    Jill V Hunter
    Department of O.I, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 26:482-8. 2005
    ..CONCLUSION: NAA levels remain low after TBI and are related to cognitive function. Neurometabolite values are greater in the left frontoparietal region than in the right, and the left frontal Cho level is related to arithmetic ability...
  42. ncbi Changes in individual and group spatial and verbal learning characteristics after anterior temporal lobectomy
    Mario F Dulay
    Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
    Epilepsia 50:1385-95. 2009
    ..To evaluate the effects of anterior temporal lobectomy (ATL) on individual and group spatial and verbal learning and memory abilities as a function of side of surgery and seizure control outcome...
  43. ncbi Predicting depression following mild traumatic brain injury
    Harvey S Levin
    Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Alliance, Baylor College of Medicine, University of Texas Houston Medical School, TX 77030, USA
    Arch Gen Psychiatry 62:523-8. 2005
    ..Minimizing negative consequences of major depression following traumatic brain injury is an important public health objective. Identifying high-risk patients and referring them for treatment could reduce morbidity and loss of productivity...
  44. ncbi Working memory and the functional anatomy of the frontal lobes
    Randall S Scheibel
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
    Cortex 40:218-9. 2004
  45. ncbi Evaluation of the errorless learning technique in children with traumatic brain injury
    Julie Landis
    Department of Educational Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA
    Arch Phys Med Rehabil 87:799-805. 2006
    ..To compare errorless learning with trial-and-error (T&E) learning of declarative facts in children with memory disorders secondary to traumatic brain injury (TBI)...
  46. ncbi Seizure control and cognitive outcome after temporal lobectomy: a comparison of classic Ammon's horn sclerosis, atypical mesial temporal sclerosis, and tumoral pathologies
    Michele K York
    Department of Neurosurgery, The Baylor Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at The Methodist Hospital Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
    Epilepsia 44:387-98. 2003
    ..Our study examined the relation between neuropathology, seizure control, and cognition in ATL patients and described preliminary profiles to aid in the prediction of outcome...
  47. ncbi Development of verbal selective learning
    Gerri Hanten
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Dev Neuropsychol 32:585-96. 2007
    ..Overall, selective learning efficiency was not related to the total number of words recalled. The findings provide a framework for interpretation of studies of selective learning in clinical populations...
  48. ncbi Limited agreement between criteria-based diagnoses of postconcussional syndrome
    Corwin Boake
    Baylor College of Medicine University of Texas Houston Medical School Department of Physical Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
    J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 16:493-9. 2004
    ..Agreement between DSM-IV postconcussional disorder and ICD-10 postconcussional syndrome appears limited by different prevalences and thresholds...
  49. ncbi Frontal and temporal morphometric findings on MRI in children after moderate to severe traumatic brain injury
    Elisabeth A Wilde
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
    J Neurotrauma 22:333-44. 2005
    ..Finally, volumetric measures of preserved frontotemporal tissue were related to functional recovery as measured by the Glasgow Outcome Scale (adapted for children) with greater tissue preservation predicting better recovery...
  50. ncbi Hippocampus, amygdala, and basal ganglia morphometrics in children after moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury
    Elisabeth A Wilde
    Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Dev Med Child Neurol 49:294-9. 2007
    ..In a separate analysis excluding children with focal hippocampal abnormalities (e.g. lesions), group differences in hippocampal volume were still evident, suggesting that hippocampal damage may be diffuse rather than focal...
  51. ncbi Executive functions after traumatic brain injury in children
    Harvey S Levin
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
    Pediatr Neurol 33:79-93. 2005
    ..Proposed approaches to the rehabilitation of executive functions are presented...
  52. ncbi Diagnostic criteria for postconcussional syndrome after mild to moderate traumatic brain injury
    Corwin Boake
    Baylor College of Medicine University of Texas Houston Medical School, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Houston, TX 77030 3405, USA
    J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 17:350-6. 2005
    ..The authors conclude that further refinement of the DSM-IV and ICD-10 criteria for PCS is needed before these criteria are routinely employed...
  53. ncbi Assessing and inducing neuroplasticity with transcranial magnetic stimulation and robotics for motor function
    Marcia K O'Malley
    Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005 1892, USA
    Arch Phys Med Rehabil 87:S59-66. 2006
    ..To describe 2 new ways of assessing and inducing neuroplasticity in the human brain--transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and robotics--and to investigate and promote the recovery of motor function after brain damage...
  54. ncbi Normalized movement quality measures for therapeutic robots strongly correlate with clinical motor impairment measures
    Ozkan Celik
    Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA
    IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng 18:433-44. 2010
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  55. ncbi The relation between Glasgow Coma Scale score and later cerebral atrophy in paediatric traumatic brain injury
    Alokananda Ghosh
    E B Singleton Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Texas Children s Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
    Brain Inj 23:228-33. 2009
    ..It was hypothesized that a lower GCS score would predict later generalized atrophy. As a guide in assessing paediatric TBI patients, the probability of developing chronic cerebral atrophy was determined based on the initial GCS score...
  56. ncbi Identifying depression in epilepsy in a busy clinical setting is enhanced with systematic screening
    David E Friedman
    Peter Kellaway Section of Neurophysiology and Baylor Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Seizure 18:429-33. 2009
    ..The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of using a validated self-reporting depression scale on the ability to detect depression in people with epilepsy receiving care in a busy clinical setting...
  57. ncbi Perception of health and quality of life in minorities after mild-to-moderate traumatic brain injury
    Sharon A Brown
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
    Appl Neuropsychol 11:54-64. 2004
    ..Manifestations of physical difficulties may be better accepted for some cultures than having mental illness...
  58. ncbi Fluid thresholds and outcome from severe brain injury
    Guy L Clifton
    Vivian L Smith Center for Neurologic Research and the Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Crit Care Med 30:739-45. 2002
    ..To determine, by retrospective analysis, critical thresholds for intracranial pressure, mean arterial pressure, cerebral perfusion pressure, and fluid balance associated with poor outcome in patients with severe brain injury...
  59. ncbi Memory, emotional and vocational impairments before and after anterior temporal lobectomy for complex partial seizures
    Mario F Dulay
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Bayor College of Medcine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
    Epilepsia 47:1922-30. 2006
    ..Results provide support for the rationale that cognitive, psychiatric and vocational interventions are indicated to mitigate the problems that exist before and persist after ATL...
  60. ncbi Decision-making after traumatic brain injury in children: a preliminary study
    Gerri Hanten
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Neurocase 12:247-51. 2006
    ..These results are in contrast to studies of decision-making in adults with focal lesions of vascular etiology...
  61. ncbi Functional reorganization and recovery after constraint-induced movement therapy in subacute stroke: case reports
    Tony Ro
    Department of Psychology, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
    Neurocase 12:50-60. 2006
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  62. ncbi Verbal selective learning after traumatic brain injury in children
    Gerri Hanten
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
    Ann Neurol 56:847-53. 2004
    ..We conclude that severe TBI disrupts incentive-based cognitive control processes, possibly due to involvement of frontal neural networks...
  63. ncbi Lost productive work time after mild to moderate traumatic brain injury with and without hospitalization
    Corwin Boake
    Department of Physical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine and University of Texas at Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA
    Neurosurgery 56:994-1003; discussion 994-1003. 2005
    ..This is the first prospective study of employment after mild TBI to include patients not admitted to a hospital...
  64. ncbi Modeling of longitudinal academic achievement scores after pediatric traumatic brain injury
    Linda Ewing-Cobbs
    Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Houston Health Science Center, 77030, USA
    Dev Neuropsychol 25:107-33. 2004
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  65. ncbi Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms and response inhibition after closed head injury in children: do preinjury behavior and injury severity predict outcome?
    Russell Schachar
    Brain and Behavior, Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Dev Neuropsychol 25:179-98. 2004
    ..Poor response inhibition is a consequence of CHI but only when the CHI is severe and the child manifests high levels of SADHD symptoms...
  66. ncbi Predictors of secondary attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents 6 to 24 months after traumatic brain injury
    Jeffrey E Max
    Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, USA
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 44:1041-9. 2005
    ..To assess the phenomenology and predictive factors of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) after traumatic brain injury (TBI), also called secondary ADHD (SADHD)...
  67. ncbi Discourse macrolevel processing after severe pediatric traumatic brain injury
    Sandra Bond Chapman
    Center for BrainHealth, The University of Texas at Dallas, 75235, USA
    Dev Neuropsychol 25:37-60. 2004
    ..Children who sustain a severe TBI early in childhood are at an increased risk for persisting deficits in higher level discourse abilities, results that have implications for academic success and therapeutic practices...
  68. ncbi Impaired discourse gist and working memory in children after brain injury
    Sandra B Chapman
    Center for BrainHealth, Institute of Biomedical Sciences and Technology, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
    Brain Lang 97:178-88. 2006
    ..Interestingly, working memory, but not simple immediate memory for a word list, was significantly correlated with summarization ability and ability to recall discourse content...
  69. ncbi Predictors of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder within 6 months after pediatric traumatic brain injury
    Jeffrey E Max
    Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, USA
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 44:1032-40. 2005
    ..To assess the phenomenology and predictive factors of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) after traumatic brain injury (TBI), also called secondary ADHD (SADHD)...
  70. ncbi Morphometric MRI findings in the thalamus and brainstem in children after moderate to severe traumatic brain injury
    Michael A Fearing
    Aging Brain Center, Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife, Boston, MA, USA
    J Child Neurol 23:729-37. 2008
    ..Reduction in midbrain and thalamic volume is probably a reflection of the secondary effects of diffuse axonal injury and reduction in cortical volume from brain injury...
  71. ncbi Predictors of personality change due to traumatic brain injury in children and adolescents in the first six months after injury
    Jeffrey E Max
    Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Children s Hospital and Health Center, San Diego, CA 92123, USA
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 44:434-42. 2005
    ..To assess the phenomenology and predictive factors of personality change due to traumatic brain injury...
  72. ncbi Hypothermia on admission in patients with severe brain injury
    Guy L Clifton
    Vivian L Smith Center for Neurologic Research, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Texas Houston Medical School, 77030, USA
    J Neurotrauma 19:293-301. 2002
    ..It is unclear whether the improved outcome when hypothermia is maintained is a beneficial effect of very early hypothermia induction or an adverse effect of permitting the patients to rewarm passively...
  73. ncbi Predictors of personality change due to traumatic brain injury in children and adolescents six to twenty-four months after injury
    Jeffrey E Max
    Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, CA 92123, USA
    J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 18:21-32. 2006
    ..The data implicate the dorsal prefrontal cortex and frontal lobe white matter in the emergence of personality change involving the effortful or conscious regulation of affective states...
  74. ncbi Arthur L. Benton, Ph.D.: pioneer, colleague, mentor, and friend
    Abigail B Sivan
    Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    J Int Neuropsychol Soc 13:559-60. 2007
    ..The experience of assessing servicemen with brain injury and Bender's influence led Benton to develop the Visual Retention Test, which still bears his name and continues to be widely used in clinical neuropsychological assessment...

Research Grants30

  1. An fMRI Study of Executive Functioning after TBI
    Harvey Levin; Fiscal Year: 2005
    ..Analyses will test TBI-related alterations in brain activation at 3 months postinjury, changes on reimaging at 1 year, relationship to EFs, and MPH effects. ..
  2. NEUROBEHAVIORAL OUTCOME OF HEAD INJURY IN CHILDREN
    Harvey Levin; Fiscal Year: 2005
    ..Specific aims will be addressed primarily by general linear mixed models when data are relatively symmetric, or by general nonlinear mixed models when they are not. Some hypotheses will be tested using latent growth curve modeling. ..
  3. NEUROBEHAVIORAL OUTCOME OF HEAD INJURY IN CHILDREN
    Harvey Levin; Fiscal Year: 2006
    ..The supplement extends the ongoing project by relating cognitive control to brain function and white matter microstructure in addition to the analysis of brain regional volumes. ..
  4. Mentored Research Training in Rehabilitation Science
    Harvey Levin; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..The PIs believe that the proposed training-faculty, curriculum, and institutional environment will produce productive and ethical investigators who will advance medical rehabilitation research. ..
  5. NEUROBEHAVIORAL OUTCOME OF HEAD INJURY IN CHILDREN
    Harvey Levin; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..Statistical analysis of the hypotheses would use general linear mixed models. ..
  6. NEUROBEHAVIORAL OUTCOME OF HEAD INJURY IN CHILDREN
    Harvey Levin; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..Statistical analysis of the hypotheses would use general linear mixed models. ..
  7. NEUROBEHAVIORAL OUTCOME OF HEAD INJURY IN CHILDREN
    Harvey Levin; Fiscal Year: 2002
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  8. NEUROBEHAVIORAL OUTCOME OF HEAD INJURY IN CHILDREN
    HARVEY contact LEVIN; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..Head injuries can cause teenagers to have problems with their friends. This study tries to figure out why head injuries cause these social problems and may help find ways to treat young people with a head injury. ..