Cognitive performance, social behaviour and emotions affect
Concussions count in children and adolescents, the most common injuries. This may pose an acute risk, according to a recent study, but also significant long-term consequences. So, increasingly, eye-catching behavior were seen in affected young people, pattern, as well as cognitive and emotional impairments.
Concussions can lead to long-term cognitive and emotional impairments and behavior changes, report Researchers from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) of your study results. Was published the study in the “American Journal of Sports Medicine”.
What are the consequences of concussions have?
Among the acute symptoms of concussions impotence, ringing in the ears, memory loss, Nausea and vomiting, for example, is aware of. What are the long-term problems threaten to remain so far largely unclear. The research team at the UTHealth therefore analysed on the basis of a survey of more than 13,000 High School students and students from the United States, the potential long-term consequences of concussions.
Cognitive, emotional and behavioural factors
The Participants were first asked how often they had suffered in the last 12 months in Sport or physical activity with a concussion. In addition, a survey was carried out to relevant cognitive, emotional, and behavioral factors. Among other things, the researchers asked questions on topics such as difficulty in concentration, school grades, alcohol and driving, physical altercation, tobacco, or marijuana use, alcohol consumption, depression, and suicidal thoughts or actions.
Impairments of the cognitive and emotional health
In the survey, 14.5 percent of the students and 18.1 percent of students reported having in the past year, a minimum of a concussion suffered. In the case of the Affected have also shown at least a factor that can impact on their cognitive and emotional health or your social behaviour include, according to the research team.
Difficulty concentrating and thoughts of suicide
Among the factors that occurred in the students after a concussion are significantly more likely, for example, concentration difficulties, tobacco/E-cigarette use and binge drinking, according to the research team. They, too, were driven more drunk the car. The students showed after a concussion, among other things, increased thoughts of suicide and suicide attempts, the researchers continue. Both the students as well as students who had suffered a concussion, got ends, according to the researchers, also often in physical confrontations.
For a long time will speculated whether children who suffer a concussion, more behavior problems develop. The current study will deliver a comprehensive analysis of the various cognitive and behavioural-related health problems for the people Affected as a result of their brain injury are confronted, as the study’s author, Dr. Gregory Knellvon of the UTHealth School of Public Health in Dallas.
Concussion is a very serious brain injury
“Parents need to understand that a concussion is a very serious brain injury, every Time a need for treatment,” says Co-author Scott Burkhart from the Children’s Health Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine. The study had shown that “this type of trauma can lead to tables of brain injury in children (…) to more aggressive behavior, academic problems and social problems.” (fp)