Concussion and Post Traumatic Stress in Traumatic Brain Injury
| Status: | Terminated |
|---|---|
| Conditions: | Neurology, Psychiatric, Psychiatric |
| Therapuetic Areas: | Neurology, Psychiatry / Psychology |
| Healthy: | No |
| Age Range: | 5 - Any |
| Updated: | 11/9/2017 |
| Start Date: | May 2013 |
| End Date: | February 2016 |
Prospective Study of Concussion and PTSD in Structurally Brain Injured, Non-Structurally Brain Injured and Non-Brain Injured Trauma Victims in Bellevue HHC
Mild brain injury or concussion affects about four million Americans each year. Some people
recover completely while others, especially those with multiple concussions, develop chronic
headaches, neurodegenerative diseases and psychiatric disorders. One of the reasons that
concussion is difficult to treat is that it is difficult to detect. Radiographic studies such
as CT (computed tomography scan) are by definition unrevealing of structural injury in
concussed patients. Some MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) sequences may be useful adjuncts in
the diagnosis of concussion but even these are not consistently present in all patients with
symptoms. Clinical tests for concussion often require baseline studies, and thus are
generally reserved for athletes and others at highest risk for concussion.
The investigators have developed a novel eye movement tracking algorithm performed while
subjects watch television or a music video that determines whether the eyes are moving
together (conjugate) or are subtly not together (disconjugate). The investigators preliminary
data shows that people with lesions in their brain or recovering from brain injury have
disconjugate gaze that is not detectable by ophthalmologic examination but is detected by our
algorithm.
recover completely while others, especially those with multiple concussions, develop chronic
headaches, neurodegenerative diseases and psychiatric disorders. One of the reasons that
concussion is difficult to treat is that it is difficult to detect. Radiographic studies such
as CT (computed tomography scan) are by definition unrevealing of structural injury in
concussed patients. Some MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) sequences may be useful adjuncts in
the diagnosis of concussion but even these are not consistently present in all patients with
symptoms. Clinical tests for concussion often require baseline studies, and thus are
generally reserved for athletes and others at highest risk for concussion.
The investigators have developed a novel eye movement tracking algorithm performed while
subjects watch television or a music video that determines whether the eyes are moving
together (conjugate) or are subtly not together (disconjugate). The investigators preliminary
data shows that people with lesions in their brain or recovering from brain injury have
disconjugate gaze that is not detectable by ophthalmologic examination but is detected by our
algorithm.
The purpose of this study is to test the validity of this eye tracking algorithm for
detecting structural (visible on CT scan) and non-structural (concussive) brain injury. The
study will recruit brain injured subjects and non-brain injured controls from the Bellevue
Hospital Emergency Department and neurosurgery services for eye-tracking as well as studies
that assess the extent of brain injury. The investigators will determine if disconjugate gaze
on eye tracking is significantly associated with abnormal functional, neuro-cognitive, and
psychiatric outcomes.
The investigators hypothesize that individuals who demonstrate sustained disconjugate gaze on
the eye tracking task from the time of injury to 1 month will have elevated functional
impairment in multiple domains of life (work, interpersonal relationships), will be poor
performers on neuro-cognitive tasks (working memory, executive functioning, verbal memory,
impulsivity), and will be significantly more symptomatic of posttraumatic stress disorder
(PTSD) and depression than those who demonstrate conjugate eye tracking in the normal range
at one month. Achievement of the investigators aims will provide the first evidence that eye
tracking is a valid physiologic outcome measure for brain injury.
detecting structural (visible on CT scan) and non-structural (concussive) brain injury. The
study will recruit brain injured subjects and non-brain injured controls from the Bellevue
Hospital Emergency Department and neurosurgery services for eye-tracking as well as studies
that assess the extent of brain injury. The investigators will determine if disconjugate gaze
on eye tracking is significantly associated with abnormal functional, neuro-cognitive, and
psychiatric outcomes.
The investigators hypothesize that individuals who demonstrate sustained disconjugate gaze on
the eye tracking task from the time of injury to 1 month will have elevated functional
impairment in multiple domains of life (work, interpersonal relationships), will be poor
performers on neuro-cognitive tasks (working memory, executive functioning, verbal memory,
impulsivity), and will be significantly more symptomatic of posttraumatic stress disorder
(PTSD) and depression than those who demonstrate conjugate eye tracking in the normal range
at one month. Achievement of the investigators aims will provide the first evidence that eye
tracking is a valid physiologic outcome measure for brain injury.
Inclusion Criteria:
- All patients will be recruited from the Bellevue Hospital Emergency Services
(Emergency Department and Trauma Bay) or from among inpatient populations at Bellevue
Hospital. They will need to be consentable and able/willing to participate and meet
criteria for distribution into one of the three subject populations (structural TBI,
non-structural TBI, injured/non-TBI) described here:
- mild to moderate structural traumatic brain injury (TBI) as evidenced by CT scan
demonstrating the presence of hemorrhage (subdural, epidural, subarachnoid or
intraparenchymal), brain contusion, or skull fracture.
- non-structural TBI(concussion), meaning no signs of structural injury on imaging;
however, they complain of usual brain injury symptoms such as headache,
dizziness, cognitive impairments, etc., A subject with a traumatically induced
physiological disruption of brain function, manifested by >1 of the following:
- Any period of loss of consciousness (LOC).
- Any loss of memory for events immediately before or after the accident.
- Any alteration in mental state at the time of accident (i.e. feeling dazed,
disoriented, or confused).
- Focal neurological deficit(s) that may or may not be transient, but where the severity
of the injury does not exceed the following:
1. Loss of consciousness of approximately 30 minutes or less
2. After 30 minutes, an initial Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) of 13-15
3. Posttraumatic amnesia (PTA) not greater than 24 hours.
- Non-brain injured subjects that have suffered some type of injury such as to the
extremities or other parts of the body. The subjects will have sustained a blunt or
penetrating trauma such as, to the corpus or extremities (i.e. car accident, falling).
Exclusion Criteria:
- Subjects that receive minor penetrating trauma insufficiently traumatizing to result
in sufficient sequelae will be excluded.
- Subjects suffering burns, anoxic injury or multiple/extensive injuries resulting in
any medical, surgical or hemodynamic instability will also be excluded.
- Particularly for the purposes of eye tracking all subjects that are blind (no light
perception), are missing eyes, do not open eyes will be excluded from the research.
- It is pertinent that subjects be able to detect light and have both eyes in order for
the eye tracking data to be effective and significant.
- Any physical or mental injury or baseline disability rendering task completion
difficult will be excluded, also inability to participate in longtitudinal care, or
obvious intoxication or blood alcohol level greater than 0.2.
- Pregnant individuals and prisoners will also be excluded from the study.
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