PMID- 29388703
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20191111
LR  - 20191111
IS  - 1573-6598 (Electronic)
IS  - 0894-9867 (Linking)
VI  - 31
IP  - 1
DP  - 2018 Feb
TI  - Gender Differences in Neurocognitive Performance Among Children With 
      Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.
PG  - 64-70
LID - 10.1002/jts.22250 [doi]
AB  - Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) are 
      frequent sequelae after motor vehicle accidents (MVAs). These two pathologies 
      often have overlapping neurocognitive deficits across several domains, such as 
      attention, memory, and executive functions. The present study was an effort to 
      examine the contribution of gender to these overlapping symptoms. To this end, 
      psychodiagnostic and neuropsychological data were collected on 61 children and 
      adolescents 3 months following MVA. All participants were diagnosed with PTSD, 
      and about half (n = 33) also received a diagnosis of mTBI. Analyses of variance 
      revealed significant interactions between gender and mTBI (etap2=.15), such 
      that girls with mTBIs preformed significantly worse than noninjured girls on 
      measures of executive functions (Cohen's d = 3.88) and sustained attention 
      (Cohen's d = 3.24). Boys, on the other hand, did not differ significantly on any 
      of those measures, irrespective of TBI injury status. Similarly, comparisons to 
      the normative population revealed that, whereas boys showed impaired 
      neurocognitive performances regardless of TBI status, impaired performances in 
      girls were limited to those cases in which the girls were comorbid for PTSD and 
      mTBI. It appears then that whereas PTSD alone might explain boys' reduced 
      neurocognitive performance, among girls the comorbidity of PTSD and mTBI is 
      required to account for performance deficits.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2018 International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
FAU - Segev, Shira
AU  - Segev S
AD  - Department of Psychology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
AD  - PTSD Unit, Department of Psychological Medicine, Schneider Children's Medical 
      Center of Israel, Petach Tikvah, Israel.
FAU - Shorer, Maayan
AU  - Shorer M
AD  - PTSD Unit, Department of Psychological Medicine, Schneider Children's Medical 
      Center of Israel, Petach Tikvah, Israel.
FAU - Peleg, Tammy Pilowsky
AU  - Peleg TP
AD  - Neuropsychological Unit, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petach 
      Tikvah, Israel.
AD  - Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
FAU - Apter, Alan
AU  - Apter A
AD  - PTSD Unit, Department of Psychological Medicine, Schneider Children's Medical 
      Center of Israel, Petach Tikvah, Israel.
FAU - Fennig, Silvana
AU  - Fennig S
AD  - PTSD Unit, Department of Psychological Medicine, Schneider Children's Medical 
      Center of Israel, Petach Tikvah, Israel.
FAU - Rassovsky, Yuri
AU  - Rassovsky Y
AD  - Department of Psychology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
AD  - Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar 
      Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
AD  - Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, 
      Los Angeles (UCLA), California, USA.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20180201
PL  - United States
TA  - J Trauma Stress
JT  - Journal of traumatic stress
JID - 8809259
SB  - IM
MH  - Accidents, Traffic/*psychology
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Attention
MH  - Brain Concussion/etiology/*psychology
MH  - Child
MH  - Executive Function
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Mental Status and Dementia Tests
MH  - Sex Factors
MH  - Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/etiology/*psychology
EDAT- 2018/02/02 06:00
MHDA- 2019/11/12 06:00
CRDT- 2018/02/02 06:00
PHST- 2017/01/24 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2017/07/30 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2017/09/06 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2018/02/02 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/11/12 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2018/02/02 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1002/jts.22250 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Trauma Stress. 2018 Feb;31(1):64-70. doi: 10.1002/jts.22250. Epub 2018 Feb 1.