Objective: To explore the caregiving preparedness and burden among Omani family caregivers (FCs) of patients with acquired brain injury (ABI). Methods: A prospective observational design was used to collect data from 119 FCs their at time discharge hospital 16 weeks post-discharge during follow up-care in neurology clinic. The questionnaire comprised Zarit Burden Index, Preparedness for Caregiv...

Introduction: Following a traumatic brain injury (TBI), the excessive release of proinflammatory cytokines is major cause of cerebral edema that can cause permanent neuronal loss. This study examined the changes in brain concentrations of proinflammatory cytokines IL-1, IL-6, TNF-α and TGF- after different doses of estrogen or progesterone treatment in brain-injured rats at 6 and 24 h post...

BACKGROUND Physical activity has been established as being highly beneficial for health after stroke. There are considerable global efforts to find rehabilitation programs that encourage increased physical activity for persons with stroke. However, many persons with stroke or acquired brain injury do not reach recommended levels of physical activity and increased knowledge about why is needed. ...

Most studies into acquired theory of mind (ToM) deficits assessed patients once, long after the onset of brain injury. As a result, the time course of acquired ToM impairments is largely unknown. The present study examined whether ToM impairments following traumatic brain injury (TBI) recover, remain stable, or worsen over time. Because of the alleged association between ToM and social communic...

The objective of the present paper is to review the current status of exercise as a tool to promote cognitive rehabilitation after acquired brain injury (ABI) in animal model-based research. Searches were conducted on the PubMed, Scopus, and psycINFO databases in February 2014. Search strings used were: exercise (and) animal model (or) rodent (or) rat (and) traumatic brain injury (or) cerebral ...

To analyze if people with acquired brain injury in sub-acute situation, as well their relatives and/or partners, consider relevant the approach to sexuality during Occupational Therapy intervention. This study presents a qualitative design phenomenological approach. Twelve participants were interviewed: eight injury, two and partners who agreed participate. The information has been collected th...

More than 170 million people in the world have some kind of speech impairment. The lack professional interpreters this domain causes their families to need learn new communicative strategies interact with them and assist as interpreters. aim paper is analyze role these non-professional for adults a impairment caused by an acquired brain injury. Data come from 13 qualitative interviews participa...

one of the main problems following road accidents is brain injury after which death and disability in the most active population occurs. considering the fact that there is no definite clinical treatment for repair of damaged brain tissue, the present study examined the effects of autologous adult neural stem/progenitor cells (ns/pcs) seeded in a nanoscaffold named puramatrix in acute brain inju...

Patients with acquired brain injury (ABI) may experience social difficulties more specifically in the emotional recognition of faces. The present research aims to test the discriminative validity of GandraBARTA to the changes in the emotional recognition of faces after ABI and to perceive its connection with the general cognitive functioning, executive functioning and other variables associated...