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Record W4414421915 · doi:10.1080/02699052.2025.2551162

What traditional neuropsychological assessment got wrong about mild traumatic brain injury. I: historical perspective, contemporary neuroimaging overview and neuropathology update

2025· article· en· W4414421915 on OpenAlexaff
E BIGLER, Steven Allder, Benjamin T. Dunkley, Jeff Victoroff

Bibliographic record

VenueBrain Injury · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicTraumatic Brain Injury Research
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNeuropathologyNeuroimagingNeuropsychologyContext (archaeology)Traumatic brain injuryNeuropsychological assessment

Abstract

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PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: This is Part I of a four-part review that examines traditional neuropsychological assessment methods and techniques in mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Absence of neuropsychological findings has been used to argue no residual neuropathological effects from mTBI. However, given the current potential that advanced multimodality and quantitative neuroimaging can now demonstrate about underlying neurobiology of brain-behavior relations, this review shows that traditional neuropsychological test as standalone findings cannot directly address the underlying complexities of detecting mTBI neuropathology. RESEARCH DESIGN: This is a review. METHODS AND PROCEDURES: century advanced neuroimaging and improved understanding of the neurobiology and potential neuropathology of mTBI. MAIN OUTCOME AND RESULTS: Traditional neuropsychological methods were never developed for detecting subtle changes in neurocognitive or neurobehavioral functioning as a standalone procedure and likewise, never designed to address the multifaceted issues related to symptom burden from having sustained a mTBI, especially after three-months post-injury. Advanced neuroimaging methods have the potential to inform the clinician and researcher about potential neurobiological factors to best understand relevant neuropsychological outcome factors associated with mTBI outcome. A model is presented that helps explain how adaptation and accommodation may occur after mTBI within the context of 'normal' traditional neuropsychological test findings. CONCLUSIONS: The limitations of traditional neuropsychological testing in mTBI outlined within the context of how advanced neuroimaging improves our understanding of mTBI outcome.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.009
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.017

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.009
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0050.004
Science and technology studies0.0010.006
Scholarly communication0.0030.007
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0030.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.174
GPT teacher head0.419
Teacher spread0.245 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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