Sureyya Dikmen

TL;DR: The NIH-TB Cognition Battery is intended to serve as a brief, convenient set of measures to supplement other outcome measures in epidemiologic and longitudinal research and clinical trials and will provide a “common currency” among researchers for comparisons across a wide range of studies and populations.

TL;DR: For patients with severe traumatic brain injury, care focused on maintaining monitored intracranial pressure at 20 mm Hg or less was not shown to be superior to care based on imaging and clinical examination.

TL;DR: Penytoin exerts a beneficial effect by reducing seizures only during the first week after severe head injury, and could not be attributed to differential mortality, low phenytoin levels, or treatment of some early seizures in patients assigned to the placebo group.

TL;DR: Major depressive disorder was associated with history of MDD and was an independent predictor of poorer health-related quality of life at 1 year compared with the nondepressed group.

TL;DR: Results indicate that single minor head injury in persons with no prior compromising condition is associated with mild but probably clinically non-significant difficulties at 1 month after injury, however, disruptions of everyday activities are extensive with other system injuries significantly contributing to these problems.