Learning through feedback for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

"In this group of students, learning through feedback was not detrimental to cognitive or academic performance, contrary to some previous reviews. There was little evidence of the effects of this specific method of instruction. Longer-term studies are needed to determine the potential of learning through feedback in both educational and other settings." - Anonymous Online Contributor

"The findings of the current study support the importance of considering not only the history, but also the physical appearance and neurological findings during the assessment of patients with head injuries." - Anonymous Online Contributor

"Approximately 80,000 people a year (10.7/10,000) become injured at the level of the cranial vault such as the brain, face, or skull. Patients who become injured are most often injured by falls from a height, by collisions with objects, and by assaults and assaults with blunt instruments. In a population of people with head trauma, 12% will have an intracranial bleed. The clinical manifestations of intracranial hemorrhage are almost always fatal. The most common intracranial injury seen in emergency departments is a basilar skull fracture (about 44% of intracranial injuries)." - Anonymous Online Contributor

"There is a wide spectrum of brain injuries that could have multiple contributing causes. The causes of brain injuries are commonly categorized into traumatic brain injuries, cerebral ischemic damage, and cerebrovascular damage, but there are some diseases, neurological syndromes, and genetic disorders that also affect brain function and health. What causes brain injuries in newborns and children? answer: Childhood brain injuries, in particular traumatic cerebral lesions and cerebral metabolic disorders, are frequently underrecognized." - Anonymous Online Contributor

"[There are three kinds of mental illnesses that have been identified as curable: depression, anxiety disorders, and psychosis: schizophrenia.] While some mental illnesses have been curable in the past, the criteria for curability have evolved, and the current state of research on mental illness is more likely to be focused on identifying the best methods of treatment." - Anonymous Online Contributor

"Brain injuries are injuries to the brain, commonly caused by trauma, ischemic insult, hemorrhage, hypoxia, or infection. Tumors and infections of the brain and cerebrospinal fluid can occur. They can be life threatening or only impede activity. They cause significant disability." - Anonymous Online Contributor

"These common treatments for brain injuries include surgical procedures for brain abscess, decompression of aneurysms, removal of hemorrhage, decompression of a subarachnoid hematoma, and shunt surgery for hydrocephalus. Treatment also may involve the insertion of intrathecal or intracerebroventricular catheters. The choice of treatment depends partly on the severity of the condition and partly on what the individual has wanted to do and how he or she feels about the issue. Also, the goal of the treatment often is in part to maintain a normal life for as much as possible." - Anonymous Online Contributor

"The majority of people with a brain injury are considering clinical trials of new treatments. However, even with the availability of the best evidence, most people are not actively seeking clinical trials for their brain injury. More comprehensive clinical trials might help to identify some treatments that are most likely to be effective." - Anonymous Online Contributor

"Learning through feedback may sometimes be added to neuropsychotherapy but is not necessarily included as a treatment modality in itself. Results from a recent paper, there was no statistically significant difference between patients who received neuropsychotherapy with (1) no learning through feedback, (2) learning through feedback at first session, (3) learning through feedback early in treatment, and (4) learning through feedback at the whole treatment session (mean pre-post-treatment score for group 4 was significantly lower than for group 3 [t-test, p = 0.010]. The difference for group 4 was not significant during post-hoc statistical analysis)." - Anonymous Online Contributor

"This article describes how the use of feedback can be used as a tool to improve both motor control and learning. For all to utilize efficiently, there must be motivation on the part of those who receive feedback, as well as the right skill set to receive feedback. Further research needs to be conducted on how best to apply feedback to the learning of motor skills by children, and whether utilizing such feedback could improve learning, as well as how the application of such feedback can be effective in motor skill learning." - Anonymous Online Contributor

"Other research has focused on learning, which involves a variety of approaches, among which the use of feedback (whether it is in the form of summative feedback or in the form of automated feedback and/or computer-assisted feedback) is currently under investigation. Some of this work has focused on learning through feedback in neurologically impaired or disabled patients, and some on learning in rehabilitation and in the workplace. The use of a human error monitor seems particularly suited to detecting subtle performance errors. There is considerable evidence that computer-assisted feedback is an effective method of providing feedback to assist people in learning/recovering (e.g. Parkinson's disease, stroke, etc.)." - Anonymous Online Contributor

"Results from a recent paper of the current review show that a learning by feedback strategy is effective in enhancing and speeding up knowledge of therapeutic skills for use in the clinical practice, and the application of this approach can bring advantages for patients. This kind of learning by feedback is feasible and useful for learning and applying physical and theoretical skills in clinical practice, and in the assessment of the performance of physical and intellectual skills and their relation with one another." - Anonymous Online Contributor