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Narrative discourse after closed head injury in children and adolescents

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This study examined narrative discourse in 20 children and adolescents at least 1 year after sustaining a head injury to find the most important finding which emerged was the disruption in information structure.
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This article is published in Brain and Language.The article was published on 1992-07-01. It has received 162 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Frontal lobe & Closed head injury.

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The neuropsychology of narrative: story comprehension, story production and their interrelation.

TL;DR: A basic description of comprehension and production based solely on neuropsychological evidence is presented to complement current cognitive models, and a number of avenues for future research are suggested.
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Preinjury family environment as a determinant of recovery from traumatic brain injuries in school-age children

TL;DR: Individual growth curve analyses showed that measures of the preinjury family environment consistently predicted both the level of cognitive and behavioral functioning at 12 months postinjury and the rate of intraindividual change during the 12-month follow-up period, even after taking into account group membership and injury severity.
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Longitudinal neuropsychological outcome in infants and preschoolers with traumatic brain injury

TL;DR: The persistent deficits and lack of catch-up over time suggest a reduction in the rate of acquisition of new skills after severe TBI, which may produce subtle linguistic changes adversely impacting estimates of Verbal IQ and expressive language.
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ASSESSMENT OF COMA AND IMPAIRED CONSCIOUSNESS: A Practical Scale

Graham M. Teasdale, +1 more
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TL;DR: A clinical scale has been evolved for assessing the depth and duration of impaired consciousness and coma that facilitates consultations between general and special units in cases of recent brain damage, and is useful also in defining the duration of prolonged coma.
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Cohesion in English

TL;DR: This book studies the cohesion that arises from semantic relations between sentences, reference from one to the other, repetition of word meanings, the conjunctive force of but, so, then and the like are considered.
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Speaking: From Intention to Articulation

TL;DR: In this article, Willem "Pim" Levelt, Director of the Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistik, accomplishes the formidable task of covering the entire process of speech production from constraints on conversational appropriateness to articulation and self-monitoring of speech.
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Toward a model of text comprehension and production.

TL;DR: The semantic structure of texts can be described both at the local microlevel and at a more global macrolevel, and a model for text comprehension based on this notion accounts for the formation of a coherent semantic text base in terms of a cyclical process constrained by limitations of working memory.
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