ArticleThe journal of spinal cord medicine2022
Does lack of brain injury mean lack of cognitive impairment in traumatic spinal cord injury?
Article in The journal of spinal cord medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Acute effects of neuromuscular electrical stimulation on lactate, IGF-1 and cognition in chronic spinal cord injury: A pilot randomized cross-over study.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2026Trial
- Review of osteokines in spinal cord injury: potential biomarkers during rehabilitation.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2025Review
- Extracellular vesicle-mediated spinal cord-brain crosstalk induces hippocampal neurogenesis impairment and cognitive deficits post-spinal cord injury.Theranostics · 2025Article
- Identifying Likely Incidents of Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury and Elevated Risk of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia: Health Care Cost Institute Data.Topics in spinal cord injury rehabilitation · 2025Article
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- Neuromuscular electrical stimulation to combat cognitive aging in people with spinal cord injury: protocol for a single case experimental design study.BMC neurology · 2024Article
- Cognitive Failure in Adults with Spinal Cord Injury: A Valuable Adjunct Measure for Enhancing Cognitive Assessment and Rehabilitation Outcomes.Neurology international · 2023Article
- Hippocampal Mitochondrial Abnormalities Induced the Dendritic Complexity Reduction and Cognitive Decline in a Rat Model of Spinal Cord Injury.Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveTraumatic spinal cord injury (tSCI) has implications in many areas, including cognitive functioning. Findings regarding cognitive problems in people with SCI are inconsistent, presumably due to multiple variables than can affect performance, among them emotional variables. The purpose of the current study was to elucidate cognitive sequalae in some individuals with tSCI with no medical record of brain injury, while taking emotional variables into consideration.
designCross-sectional, with two groups.
settingA public rehabilitation center.
participantsTwenty participants with tSCI at least ten months post injury and twenty non-SCI controls, matched for sex, age, and education.
interventionNone. OUTCOME MEASURES: A battery of neuropsychological tests tapping executive functions, memory, attention, and naming abilities, in addition to questionnaires assessing depression and distress.
resultsWhen emotional variables were statistically controlled, participants with tSCI showed higher levels of depression and distress and scored lower than non-SCI control participants on all cognitive tests except naming. Executive functions were found to have the highest effect size, though no specific ability was sensitive enough to differentiate between the groups in a binary logistic regression analysis.
conclusionIn some individuals with chronic tSCI, lower cognitive ability that is unrelated to emotional distress might result from spinal cord damage and its implications in a population who's medical records show no indication of brain injury. This highlights the importance of conducting cognitive evaluation following SCI, so that deficits can be effectively addressed during rehabilitation.
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