SynthesisNeuropsychology review2021
The Effect of Childhood Traumatic Brain Injury on Verbal Fluency Performance: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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- Health Outcomes Following Traumatic Brain Injury: An Umbrella Review.Neuropsychology review · 2026Review
- The evolution of phonemic verbal fluency test: bridging tradition with contemporary insights.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- Traumatic brain injuries: a neuropsychological review.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2024Review
- Art therapy's engagement of brain networks for enduring recovery from addiction.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Quantitative Meta-analyses of Cognitive Abilities in Children With Pediatric-onset Multiple Sclerosis.Neuropsychology review · 2023Review
- Comprehensive assessment of executive functioning following childhood severe traumatic brain injury: clinical utility of the child executive functions battery.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Verbal fluency is a neuropsychological measure commonly used to examine cognitive-linguistic performance as reported in pediatric TBI literature. We synthesized the scholarly literature of verbal fluency performance in pediatric TBI and estimated the effects of TBI according to: (i) type of verbal fluency task (phonemic or semantic), (ii) severity of TBI, and (iii) time post-injury. Meta-analysis revealed that childhood TBI negatively impacted phonemic fluency and semantic fluency and that effect sizes were larger for children with more severe TBI. The negative effect of TBI was evident across time post injury within each level of severity. Verbal fluency tasks are efficient indicators of potential underlying impairments in lexical knowledge and executive functioning in children with TBI regardless of severity of injury or time post injury. Future research employing verbal fluency tasks are encouraged to explore if age at injury differentiates semantic versus phonemic fluency outcomes across severity levels.
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