ID #25 Symposium:
Tracks
Cabernet Room A & B
| Friday, November 8, 2019 |
| 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM |
| Cabernet Room A & B |
Presentation
Updates on factors influencing post-acute outcome after mild traumatic brain injury.
Overview
ID #25 Symposium runs continuously from 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Presenter(s)
Dr Jacqueline Anderson
The University Of Melbourne
Updates on factors influencing post-acute outcome after mild traumatic brain injury.
1:30 PM - 2:30 PMSummary
This series of papers aims to explore some of the factors, other than depression and anxiety, that may be playing a role in elevated symptom reporting after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Specifically, we examine whether the personality factor, neuroticism, impacts cognitive complaint. We also investigate whether the assumption that cognitive recovery is complete 6-12 weeks after injury is accurate. Finally, we explore the role of coping style, illness perceptions and pain on outcome after mTBI. In combination these papers suggest that a range of factors, in addition to depression and anxiety, are important in understanding post-acute outcome after mTBI. They provide evidence to support the notion that individuals who report ongoing complaint after mTBI are not necessarily ‘anxious’, ‘depressed’ or exaggerating their symptomatology.
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Dr Anderson is a clinician researcher in Clinical Neuropsychology at The University of Melbourne. She has practised as a Clinical Neuropsychologist for 20 years and currently holds an honorary position as Senior Clinical Neuropsychologist at The Alfred hospital, Melbourne. She is Convenor of the Clinical Neuropsychology professional training programme at The University of Melbourne, and conducts research into the neuropsychological consequences of subcortical dysfunction. Her research interests are particularly focussed on investigating attention, working memory and executive function changes as a consequence of subcortical damage in individuals with mild traumatic brain injury and subcortical stroke. She is also interested in understanding how neuropathological changes interact with cognitive, physical and psychological factors to impact an individual’s outcome.
Mr Patrick Summerell
The University Of Melbourne
Updates on factors influencing post-acute outcome after mild traumatic brain injury.
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM.....
Patrick is completing the Master of Psychology (Clinical Neuropsychology) program at The University of Melbourne, heading toward completion of the course in December 2019. His Masters research project, titled 'The relationship between personality and post-concussive symptomatology after mild traumatic brain injury' sought to elucidate the impact of individual differences in personality on symptom endorsement following mTBI. The results of this research will form the basis of his CCN talk.
Ms Emily Cockle
University Of Melbourne
Updates on factors influencing post-acute outcome after mild traumatic brain injury.
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM.....
