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Attentional skills following traumatic brain injuries in elite female athletes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 August 2025
Abstract
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Introduction
Traumatic brain injuries are serious traumatic situations
Objectives
Aim of this study was to evaluate the attentional skills in cases with traumatic brain injuries, in elite female athlete
Methods
3 female elite athletes (1 basket ball player, 1 runner and 1 ping pong player ) were participated in this study, 60 days more or little less after cervical spine injuries. Range of age 25-35 years and mean age 29.
We used specific performance tests, letter cancellation exam, naming trials and iq tests.
Results
All of them(3,100%) reported deficits in all areas of attention function and also cognitive and emotional status.2 of them(66%) reported also difficulty in complex task activities, especially when time limits were imposed.
Conclusions
All these exams are good and efficient tools in order to evaluate this kind of patients.
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- European Psychiatry , Volume 68 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 33rd European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2025 , pp. S1203 - S1204
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.- Copyright
- © The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of European Psychiatric Association
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