Relationship between Attention/Executive Functioning Deficits and Social Communication Abilities in Person with TBI
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PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Margaret A. Struchen, Ph.D.
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CO-INVESTIGATORS
Angelle Sander, Ph.D.
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Walter M. High, Ph.D.
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Laura Rosas, M.A
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Specific Aims: 1) To examine the relationship between executive functioning abilities and social communication abilities following traumatic brain injury. 2) To examine the contribution of awareness of deficit to performance on both measures of executive functioning abilities and social communication abilities.
Sample: 162 persons with moderate to severe TBI who are participants in the TBI Model System study and are at least 1-year post-injury; and 162 family members or friends of the person with TBI. All participants must be at least 18 years old.
Design:
Aim 1) Assessment of social communication for individuals with TBI, including behavioral measures of receptive, processing, and expressive aspects. Concurrent assessment of attention/executive functioning, including measures of focused attention, sustained attention, fluency, concept formation, planning, problem-solving, and cognitive flexibility.
Aim 2) Use of discrepancy score between self and friend/family member ratings of social communication skills to predict concurrent performance on behavioral measures of social communication and executive functioning.
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Margaret A. Struchen, Ph.D.Brain Injury Research Center (BIRC)
2455 S. Braeswood
Houston, Texas 77030
713-666-9550
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