Lesson 1Principles of assessment after moderate TBI: timing, baseline data, and collateral historyThis part outline key rules for checks after medium head injury. Topics cover early vs long checks, start data, family stories, health factors for meaning and forecast.
Optimal timing across recovery phasesUsing premorbid and baseline informationGathering collateral history from informantsMedical, neurological, and medication factorsCommunicating prognosis and uncertaintyLesson 2Standardized tests for attention and processing speed (e.g., Continuous Performance Test, Trail Making Test A, Digit Symbol)This part handle standard measures for attention and speed in adult head injury. We highlight choice, sense to spread damage, common mix-ups, work and drive advice.
Sustained attention and CPT paradigmsTrail Making Test A and processing speedDigit Symbol and coding tasks in TBIDistinguishing inattention from slowed speedEnvironmental and fatigue confoundsLesson 3Ecological and functional measures: functional independence measures, ADL/IADL checklists, work-related functional assessmentsThis part focus on real life and function measures after head injury, like freedom scales, daily task lists, work checks. Link test to taking part, safety, rehab goals.
Functional Independence Measure and variantsADL and IADL checklists in brain injuryWork-related functional capacity evaluationsPerformance-based versus rating measuresIntegrating functional data with test scoresLesson 4Language and naming assessments relevant to left temporal lesions (e.g., Boston Naming Test, Controlled Oral Word Association)This part review language and naming tests hit by left temporal damage in adult head injury. Stress task needs, error ways, numbers, guide tell apart and rehab plans.
Core language functions in adult TBIBoston Naming Test: uses and limitationsVerbal fluency and COWAT in TBI assessmentError analysis in naming and word retrievalInterpreting lateralization and lesion correlatesLesson 5Visuospatial and constructional tests (e.g., Rey-Osterrieth copy, Block Design) and when to include themThis part check space vision and build tests in adult head injury, when to use. Cover common measures, side deficits, spread effects, drive, move, daily effects.
Core visuospatial abilities and TBIRey-Osterrieth copy and organizational styleBlock Design and spatial reasoningScreening for neglect and visual field issuesFunctional impact on driving and navigationLesson 6Assessment of prospective memory and everyday memory tasks (e.g., Cambridge Prospective Memory Test, naturalistic tasks)This part check future memory and daily memory in adult head injury, compare standard to natural tasks. Link test to real fails, suggest help strategies.
Prospective memory models and TBI vulnerabilityCambridge Prospective Memory Test in practiceNaturalistic tasks and real‑world generalizationAssessing everyday memory complaints and diariesLinking findings to compensatory strategiesLesson 7Memory assessment: verbal and visual episodic memory tests (e.g., Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised, Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test, Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure recall)This part cover word and picture event memory tests for adult head injury. Stress store vs get deficits, true effort, know formats, rehab and help training.
Verbal list-learning tests in TBIStory memory and contextual encodingRey-Osterrieth recall and visual memoryEncoding versus retrieval pattern analysisMemory findings and rehab planningLesson 8Selecting tests for repeated measurement: practice effects, alternate forms, and reliable change indicesThis part explain pick tests for repeat checks in head injury, handle practice, other forms, true change numbers. Plan follows and read change proper.
Sources and size of practice effectsUse and limits of alternate test formsCalculating and using reliable change indicesInterval selection for serial assessmentsDocumenting clinically meaningful changeLesson 9Executive function tests: planning, inhibition, set-shifting, fluency, and working memory (e.g., Stroop, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, Tower of London, Verbal Fluency)This part review executive tests for head injury, planning, hold back, shift, flow, work memory. Read error ways, real valid, safety and free effects.
Conceptual models of executive dysfunctionStroop and inhibition measures in TBIWisconsin Card Sorting and set-shiftingTower tasks and planning abilityWorking memory and complex span tasksLesson 10Mood, anxiety, and behavioral rating scales (e.g., BDI-II or PHQ-9, GAD-7, Neuropsychiatric Inventory, FrSBe)This part cover mood, worry, behaviour score sheets after head injury, self and other reports. Focus choice, cut points, overlap with injury, mix into cases and treat.
Depression measures: BDI-II, PHQ-9 in TBIAnxiety assessment with GAD-7 after TBINeuropsychiatric Inventory and behavioral changeFrSBe and frontal behavioral syndromesChoosing self versus informant ratings
