Browsing HMS Scholarly Articles by Author "Zafonte, Ross"
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Attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions of caregivers and rehabilitation providers about disabled children’s sleep health: a qualitative study
Chen, Xiaoli; Gelaye, Bizu; Velez, Juan Carlos; Pepper, Micah; Gorman, Sara; Barbosa, Clarita; Zafonte, Ross D; Redline, Susan; Williams, Michelle A (BioMed Central, 2014)Background: Children with disabilities are more likely to have sleep disturbances than children without disabilities. Identifying attitudes, beliefs, knowledge, and perceptions of caregivers and health professionals is ... -
Combining Dopaminergic Facilitation with Robot-Assisted Upper Limb Therapy in Stroke Survivors: A Focused Review
Tran, Duc A.; Pajaro-Blazquez, Marta; Daneault, Jean-Francois; Gallegos, Jaime G.; Pons, Jose; Fregni, Felipe; Bonato, Paolo; Zafonte, Ross (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2016)ABSTRACT Despite aggressive conventional therapy, lasting hemiplegia persists in a large percentage of stroke survivors. The aim of this article is to critically review the rationale behind targeting multiple sites along ... -
Functional Status Predicts Acute Care Readmissions from Inpatient Rehabilitation in the Stroke Population
Slocum, Chloe; Gerrard, Paul; Black-Schaffer, Randie; Goldstein, Richard; Singhal, Aneesh; DiVita, Margaret A.; Ryan, Colleen M.; Mix, Jacqueline; Purohit, Maulik; Niewczyk, Paulette; Kazis, Lewis; Zafonte, Ross; Schneider, Jeffrey C. (Public Library of Science, 2015)Objective: Acute care readmission risk is an increasingly recognized problem that has garnered significant attention, yet the reasons for acute care readmission in the inpatient rehabilitation population are complex and ... -
Healthcare Hackathons Provide Educational and Innovation Opportunities: A Case Study and Best Practice Recommendations
Silver, Julie K.; Binder, David S.; Zubcevik, Nevena; Zafonte, Ross D. (Springer US, 2016)Physicians and other healthcare professionals are often the end users of medical innovation; however, they are rarely involved in the beginning design stages. This often results in ineffective healthcare solutions with ... -
Impaired Cognitive Performance in Youth Athletes Exposed to Repetitive Head Impacts
Koerte, Inga Katharina; Nichols, Elizabeth; Tripodis, Yorghos; Schultz, Vivian; Lehner, Stefan; Igbinoba, Randy; Chuang, Alice Z.; Mayinger, Michael; Klier, Eliana M.; Muehlmann, Marc; Kaufmann, David; Lepage, Christian; Heinen, Florian; Schulte-Körne, Gerd; Zafonte, Ross Dennis; Shenton, Martha Elizabeth; Sereno, Anne B. (Mary Ann Liebert Inc, 2017)Worldwide, more than 22 million children and adolescents are exposed to repetitive head impacts (RHI) in soccer. Evidence indicates cumulative effects on brain structure, but it is not known whether exposure to RHI affects ... -
Increased Gray Matter Diffusion Anisotropy in Patients with Persistent Post-Concussive Symptoms following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Bouix, Sylvain; Pasternak, Ofer; Rathi, Yogesh; Pelavin, Paula E.; Zafonte, Ross; Shenton, Martha E. (Public Library of Science, 2013)A significant percentage of individuals diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) experience persistent post-concussive symptoms (PPCS). Little is known about the pathology of these symptoms and there is often no ... -
Multiple prior concussions are associated with symptoms in high school athletes
Mannix, Rebekah; Iverson, Grant L; Maxwell, Bruce; Atkins, Joseph E; Zafonte, Ross; Berkner, Paul D (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2014)Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association of prior concussion on baseline computerized neurocognitive testing in a large cohort of high school athletes. Methods: This is a retrospective cohort ... -
Neuropsychiatric Symptoms and Expenditure on Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Purohit, Maulik Prafull; Zafonte, Ross Dennis; Sherman, Laura M.; Davis, Roger B.; Giwerc, Michelle Y.; Shenton, Martha Elizabeth; Yeh, Gloria Y. (Physicians Postgraduate Press, Inc, 2015)Objective—Neuropsychiatric symptoms affect 37% of US adults. These symptoms are often refractory to standard therapies, and patients may consequently opt for complementary and alternative medicine therapies (CAM). We sought ... -
P04.42. Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine among Adults with Neuro-Psychiatric Symptoms Common to Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Purohit, Maulik Prafull; Wells, R; Bertisch, Suzanne Michele; Zafonte, Ross Dennis; Davis, Robert Glen; Phillips, Russell Scott (BioMed Central, 2012)Purpose: One in three adults uses complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) annually in the United States. However, the pattern of CAM use among adults with neuropsychiatric symptoms commonly reported by patients with ... -
P04.74. Use of Mind-Body Therapies Among Adults with Neuropsychiatric Symptoms Common to Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Purohit, Maulik Prafull; Bertisch, Suzanne Michele; Wells, R; Zafonte, Ross Dennis; Phillips, Richard Edmund (BioMed Central, 2012) -
A review of magnetic resonance imaging and diffusion tensor imaging findings in mild traumatic brain injury
Shenton, Martha Elizabeth; Hamoda, Hesham; Schneiderman, J. S.; Bouix, Sylvain; Pasternak, Ofer; Rathi, Yogesh; Vu, M.-A.; Purohit, Maulik Prafull; Helmer, Karl G.; Koerte, Inga Katharina; Lin, Alexander Peter; Westin, Carl-Fredrik; Kikinis, Ron; Kubicki, Marek R.; Stern, R. A.; Zafonte, Ross Dennis (Springer Science + Business Media, 2012)Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), also referred to as concussion, remains a controversial diagnosis because the brain often appears quite normal on conventional computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging ... -
White Matter Integrity in the Brains of Professional Soccer Players Without a Symptomatic Concussion
Koerte, Inga Katharina; Ertl-Wagner, Birgit; Reiser, Maximilian; Zafonte, Ross Dennis; Shenton, Martha Elizabeth (American Medical Association (AMA), 2012)