North American Brain Injury Society

Dear Colleagues, It is with great pleasure that we present the accepted abstracts from the North American Brain Injury Society's Brain Injury Across the Age Spectrum: Improving Outcomes for Children, Adolescents, and Adults in this issue of the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. The conference is scheduled to take place in Houston, Texas, on March 14—17, 2018. This year we were delighted to have received over 110 abstracts from investigators and researchers from over 11 countries and from some of the world's leading academic and research institutions. Moreover, we continue to be pleased with the high quality of the research submitted and with the broad range of topics that truly reflect the advances now being made across the continuum of care in the field of brain injury. For those of you unable to attend the NABIS meeting, we hope that the abstracts presented in the following pages will at least give you a feel for our annual event. In addition, the oral and poster presentations abstracted in this issue of the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, over 50 invited speakers will present on the latest advances in the science, rehabilitation and treatment of traumatic brain injury. The conference planning committee has developed an integrated educational program that promises to be of interest to researchers, clinicians, administrators, and other brain injury professionals. Emphasis will be placed on a multidisciplinary approach in the management of patients with brain injury from acute care through to community re-entry and beyond. The conference will be a four-day, multi-track event that will cover a variety of brain injury topics including medical best practices, rehabilitation, research, life-long living, pediatrics, and advocacy. The preliminary conference program is posted on the conference website, www.abi2018.org. We encourage you to consider becoming a member of our multi-disciplinary society by visiting www.nabis.org. Whether it is in the area of research or clinical care, NABIS stands behind the premise that advances in science and practices based on application of the scientific evidence will ultimately provide the best outcomes for those with brain injuries and the community as a whole. Sincerely, Jonathan Silver, MD Conference Chair Mariusz Ziejewski, PhD NABIS Chair Abstract Chair 0002 Importance of Multidisciplinary Approach to Mild Traumatic Brain Injury With Post-Concussive Syndrome Sampathkumar H1, Akinpelu T2, Lopez E2 1University of Texas at Houston, Houston, United States, 2New York Medical College, New York, United States Case Presentation A 45-year-old African male presented to our Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) clinic on January 20, 2017 for electro-diagnostic study to rule out cervical radiculopathy. He complained of neck pain radiating to left arm, jaw pain, headache, and dizziness with certain movements, confusion, along with physical and mental fatigue. Physical exam showed impairment in attention, executive function, and recent memory/recall. On further questioning patient reported that while he was at work he was hit by a heavy machinery on the posterior aspect of the head causing brief loss of consciousness on October 2016. His head CT and cervical spine MRI that was done prior to our clinic visit did not show any acute pathology. Prior to our clinic visit he had tried multiple medications for headache and pain with poor control. Electro-diagnostic study was normal. He was provided referral to physical therapy, speech therapy and neuropsychology. On his follow-up visit a week later accompanied by a family member who reported that patient sleeps most of the time, misplaces things and has not been himself since the incident. We felt comfortable diagnosing him with mild TBI with post-concussive syndrome. Patient and family member provided extensive education on natural history and symptoms of TBI. Since then he has been compliant with treatment plan. After multiple visits with physical and speech therapist, neuropsychologist, trials of multiple analgesic medications, trigger point injections his headache and jaw pain improved significantly, neck pain became less intense and more localized to the left lateral aspect of the neck, dizziness was gradually improving but continued to have persistent cognitive deficits. He was able to mitigate this somewhat by keeping memory logs containing clinic appointments and medication schedule with the assistance of his relatives. After starting neurostimulants improvement has been noted in overall cognition as well. Discussion This is a classic case of mild TBI subsequently developing post concussive syndrome. This patient was referred to us for neck pain and prior to our clinic visit a diagnosis of mild TBI was overlooked. Certain percentage of patients with mild TBI do not recover completely. Various studies have showed that early access to multidisciplinary (MD) rehabilitation improves functional activity of patients hence timely referral is important in the management. Early intervention will help decrease the severity of complication suffered by patients with mild TBI. MD rehabilitation team involves a physician providing direct care as well as coordinating care through referrals to various disciplines and integrating treatment plans. Conclusion Clinicians should be educated on accurately diagnosing mild TBI. Once such diagnosis is made timely referral to a multidisciplinary team can improve patient outcome. 0003 Emotionally Empathic Responses Improves Emotion Recognition Accuracy to Film Clips After Brain Injury Neumann D1,2, Zupan B3 1Indiana University, Indianapolis, United States, 2Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana, Indianapolis, United States, 3CQUniversity Australia, North Rockhampton, Australia Objective Emotion recognition is often impaired after a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Currently, little is known about the mechanisms underlying this deficit. One theory behind affect recognition is that it is easier to identify others' emotions if you have firsthand experience with those emotions. This suggests that the occurrence of a shared emotional response to others' feelings could facilitate affect identification. Thus, the study objective is to compare, in participants with a TBI and Healthy controls (HCs), emotional responses to affective film clips that were congruent with the emotions portrayed by the characters (i.e., felt the same emotion as the character) and examine associations of emotional congruence with affect recognition accuracy and empathy. Design Cross sectional study using a quasi-experimental design. Setting Multi-site study conducted at a post-acute rehabilitation facility in the U.S. and a University in Ontario. 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