Coping with Neurological Symptoms Lab

📚🍂 Happy Back to School Week! From all of us at the TRANSCENDENT, we wish students, families, and educators a healthy and successful start to the school year.💡
👉 Check out pedsconcussion.com/return-to-ac... for practical recommendations on returning to activity, sport, and school safely! 📚🧠

Rock out with us and Pennington Hall, a local band named after the wing of (the former) Riverview Psychiatric Hospital where all the band members worked as clinical psychologists and got their start playing for patients.

Progress in Concussion/Traumatic Brain Injury Science and... : The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation as refined our understanding of concussion/traumatic brain injury pathophysiology, recovery, and long-term effects. We also discuss shifts in terminology and outline how assessment and rehabilitation ...

What have we learned about concussion/TBI over the last 40 years? And how have these insights advanced clinical practice?

Invited review to mark the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation's 40th anniversary, with John Leddy @ubuffalo.bsky.social (free access):
journals.lww.com/headtraumare...

Applications are open for our Diversity Mentorship Program!
This program is open to undergraduates or recent graduates, anywhere in the world, who are interested in graduate studies in psychology. Apply here by Aug 25: psych.ubc.ca/diversity

Our *new publication* suggests that clinicians need not be concerned with high fear avoidance behavior after concussion unless it persists for several weeks.
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Gender Differences in Seeking and Receiving Healthcare... : The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation ts (56% women, 2% gender-diverse; aged 18-69 years) who presented to emergency department/urgent care within 72 hours after mTBI and were randomized to usual care in the parent study. Design: Secon...

Our *new publication* reports that women more frequently sought care from their family doctors for concussion (vs men) but did not receive more prescriptions or referrals. Women were more symptomatic and more likely to report unmet mental health care needs.
journals.lww.com/headtraumare...

Neuropsychological Rehabilitation This is a live webinar worth 1.5 CEs. You must attend the talk in its entirety to receive CE credit. For more information visit our website.

🧠 Join us for our upcoming CE Webinar on Neuropsychological Rehabilitation with Dr. Masha Berman!
📅 Tues, Aug 19 | 🕐 1PM EST / 10AM PST
🎓 Earn 1.5 CEs
Link: events.zoom.us/ev/AiJHsUKOT...

Brain Injury Canada's website hosts multiple resources for individuals living with brain injuries. From our extensive resource website to our accessible service directory, discover more about how we support Canadians with brain injuries today: braininjurycanada.ca/en/resources...

The CCN-RCC 5th Annual Meeting is in 4 days!

Let’s look at our 4 symposium topics:

1. Repeated exposure to subconcussive explosive blasts
2. Equitable care in para sport
3.Tracking outcomes from the ED to recovery
4.Championing youth perspectives for prevention

www.ccn-rccevent.com/agenda

Prediction of Mental Health Complications Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury | Journal of Neurotrauma Prognostic models can support prevention of mental health complications after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). The present study aimed to identify risk factors and develop prognostic model(s) for m...

*New publication*: Prediction of mental health complications following mild traumatic brain injury. Work led by graduate student Shuyuan Shi @ubcpsych.bsky.social.
www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

More details about what assessments are advised in the *clinical* pillar of the CBI-M framework for characterizing acute TBI: www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

A new characterisation of acute traumatic brain injury: the NIH-NINDS TBI Classification and Nomenclature Initiative The clinical severity of traumatic brain injury (TBI) is commonly classified according to the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) sum score as mild (13–15), moderate (9–12), or severe (3–8). A new approach is ne...

Change is afoot...A new characterisation of acute traumatic brain injury: the NIH-NINDS TBI Classification and Nomenclature Initiative - The Lancet Neurology www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Somatic Symptom Disorder After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury : The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation care centers. Participants: Adults with mTBI (N = 476). Design: Secondary analysis of a clinical trial (Clinicaltrials.gov NCT04704037). Main Measures: Early illness beliefs (Illness Percepti...

New paper with @mattburkemd.bsky.social, @davidlewisperez.bsky.social: Somatic Symptom Disorder after concussion/mTBI was associated with worse symptoms, comorbidity, and disability. SSD may be a useful framework for conceptualizing poor outcome from this injury.
journals.lww.com/headtraumare...

Senior Research Scientist & Neuropsychologist Dr. Anthony Lequerica presents on May 21, 2025 @4:30pm EST. Title: Cultural Competence in Neuropsychological Assessment and Rehabilitation. A virtual event hosted by ANST student groups from California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University, Rutgers University, and University of Illinois at Chicago. Speaker and ANST logo pictured. Zoom link: https://bit.ly/3RrpC9l. Meeting ID: 696 877 2414. Passcode: 300088

ANST Interest Groups at CSPP at Alliant University, Rutgers University, & University of Illinois at Chicago are hosting a joint OPEN WEBINAR. Come support these groups 5/21 @ 4:30pm EST & learn about Cultural Competence in Neuropsychological Assessment & Rehabilitation
Join via Zoom: bit.ly/3RrpC9l

📢 Open call for applications! Are you a #neuropsychology trainee interested in a leadership position? The INS Student Liaison Committee has SIX open positions, applications are due June 30th! Check out the positions and requirements here: buff.ly/gWDtd7s

New to Bluesky? We’ve created a starter pack to help you connect with Canadian Concussion Network-Réseau Canadian des Commotions members and collaborators!

go.bsky.app/CLF6iSP

Paid #internship in #MPH at the Brain Injury Research Center of Mount Sinai with Dr. Raj Kumar, and he's awesome!
#TBI #MEDSKY #REHAB #ChronicIllness

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The Canadian Concussion Network-Réseau Canadien des Commotions is free to join: ccn-rcc.ca/en/membershi...

Our network of over 450 members includes researchers, trainees, clinicians, knowledge translation professionals, community organizations, people with lived experience, and more!

Patient perceptions of persistent symptoms after mild traumatic brain injury and their influence on mental health treatment-seeking: a grounded theory study Mental health conditions after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) are common and can complicate injury outcomes, but are under-treated. According to the Common Sense Model of Self-Regulation, the w...

New publication from recent PhD grad Thalia Otamendi. 👇 How do adults with concussion make sense of their mental health problems? How do their beliefs (e.g., about etiology) lead them to seek (or decline) mental health treatment?
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Identifying mild traumatic brain injury in the post-acute polytrauma setting: a scoping review of diagnostic approaches and screening tools Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is frequently overlooked in polytrauma patients due to the overshadowing of more severe injuries, a fact that makes its identification in post-acute settings chal...

Our new review looks at the evidence (or lack thereof) for identifying mTBI/concussion in post-acute polytrauma settings

Challenges re: legitimately missing a mTBI (distracting injuries) with risk of overDx as Sx (e.g. headache, brain fog etc) are non-specific
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/I7PSG...

Promoting awareness of #FND among #concussion care providers

Important thread conceptually for all those interested in brain injury and concussion- introduces important concepts from clinical neurosciences to sports medicine

Yes please

Neuropsychological measures tend to predict real world outcomes pretty well, providing clinical value even as we make big strides in biomarker accuracy and availability

We are recruiting a new graduate student with research interests in concussion/persisting symptoms/functional disorders, and clinical training goals in neuropsychology or clinical psychology.

For prospective students: neuro.psych.ubc.ca/prospective-...

psych.ubc.ca/graduate/res...

Pilot feasibility randomised controlled trial of cognitive–behavioural therapy for functional cognitive disorder after concussion Background Functional cognitive disorder (FCD) may be common after a concussion, and no evidence-based treatment options are available. The current study evaluated the feasibility of a novel cognitive...

*New publication*: Cognitive-behavioral therapy as a candidate treatment for persistent cognitive symptoms after concussion. Huge improvements in both CBT and comparison groups. :o

neurologyopen.bmj.com/content/6/2/...

Graded exposure therapy for adults with persistent symptoms after mTBI: A historical comparison study Fear avoidance behaviour is associated with slow recovery from mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). This study is a preliminary evaluation of graded exposure therapy (GET), which directly targets fe...

*New publication* comparing graded exposure therapy to usual care for persistent symptoms after concussion in adults, led by graduate student Mathilde Rioux:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Starting out here by reposting our last few X/Twitter posts