Longitudinal neurocognitive outcomes in children with mild traumatic brain injury: An ABCD cohort analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Most children recover from mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), but some experience persistent neurocognitive effects. Understanding is limited due to methodological differences and a lack of pre-injury data. The study aimed to assess changes in neurocognitive outcomes in children following mTBI compared to orthopedic injury (OI) and non-injured (NI) controls, while accounting for pre-injury functioning.

Method

Data were drawn from the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) study, a prospective longitudinal cohort. The sample included children with mTBI between the 1-year and 2-year follow-ups (n = 83), identified by parent report of head injury with memory loss or loss of consciousness, compared to children who experienced OI within the same peri

SUBMITTER: de Souza NL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12626387 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature