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Verbal learning and memory following pediatric closed-head injury

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2009

Keith Owen Yeates ,
Elliot Blumenstein ,
Carolyn M. Patterson  and
Dean C. Delis
Keith Owen Yeates
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43205 Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH 43205
Elliot Blumenstein
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43205 Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH 43205
Carolyn M. Patterson
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72202
Dean C. Delis
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA 92093 Veterans Administration Medical Center, San Diego, CA 92161
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Abstract

In this study, verbal learning and memory following pediatric closed-head injuries (CHI) using the children's version of the California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT). Participants included 47 children, ages 5–16 yr, with a history of CHI, and 47 matched, noninjured controls. Children with CHI performed more poorly than controls on the CVLT, although their deficits varied qualitatively as a function of injury severity. Those with mild/moderate injuries performed as well as controls on learning trials, but they recalled proportionally fewer words after a delay (although their recognition was intact). Severely injured children demonstrated deficits in learning, delayed recall, and recognition, compared to controls. The groups did not differ in learning characteristics, but children with severe CHI exhibited more intrusions than controls. Pediatric CHI are associated with specific disturbances in verbal learning and memory similar to those of adults with CHI but different from those of children with other developmental and neurological disorders. JINS, 1995, I, 78–87.)

Keywords

Closed-head injuryPediatricMemory
Type
Research Articles
Information
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , January 1995 , pp. 78 - 87
Copyright
Copyright © The International Neuropsychological Society 1995

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