clincal
Effective clinical innovations and the dissemination of research findings are key elements in the growth and development of the psychology profession. There are numerous avenues that enable authors to publish and present their work. Poster presentations at conferences are effective methods for communicating research findings and providing opportunities to meet with other researchers and clinicians to discuss the research being presented. Thus, these types of conference presentations play a key role in the proliferation of research.
In this weeks discussion, you will be submitting your proposal for the Week Five Virtual Conference. You may utilize relevant assignments from previous courses in this program or suitable projects from your professional life. See the PSY699 Call for Student Poster (Links to an external site.) Presentations document for specific parameters and instructions on how to create your proposal. Following the guidelines presented in the document, create your proposal and attach it to your initial post in the discussion forum. Evaluate the impact participating in conference presentations may have on potential work settings and/or doctoral programs and comment on the following questions in your initial post.
How are conference presentations professionally relevant?
What elements of the proposal process were most difficult for you, and why?
What positive outcomes do you anticipate will come from this process, which may be applied to potential work settings and/or doctoral programs?
Sports Concussions relevant in Injuries of the Brain
by
Stayshe Wood
Objectives
This research will aim to address the issue of sport related post-concussions that can leave severe physical, behavioral, emotional, sensory, cognitive, and communication deficits in an individual, and injuries that are not easily detected but sequels can appear weeks or years after injury affecting a persons livelihood, with the goal of addressing the management and the interdependence by care providers involved in the care of concussions, expecting for these care professionals to work collectively for the well-being of the athletes.
Methods
This proposal will focus on both young and adult athletes. Classifying it as a silent epidemic the Centers for Disease Control describes concussions in this manner due to the not visible health issues that make up for approximately 75% of the 1.7 million suffering from traumatic brain injuries (Werff, Vander, Rieger, 2019). Research suggests that Neuropsychological testing can provide more sensitive measure for cognitive impairment than clinical exams, and in addition to this other studies that newer techniques in neuroimaging may help in providing greater and new insight in evaluation and managing concussions injuries related to sports (Harmon, et al., 2013).
Results
The specific aim of this proposal is to assess the extent of brain damage caused by sports concussions that affect the cognitive and physiological aspects in an individual by providing neuropsychology rehabilitation.
Conclusions
After an inflammation occurs, axons suffer retraction, although probably would not grow in the original direction, neurons can sometimes go back to their normal state. Lesions do not always involve cell death in the brain. The brain can be disseminated, localized, or systemic diffuse (Hermann, Gobel, Simon, Melzer, Schuhmann, Stenner, Meuth, 2010). Medically speaking all aspects are important to establish location and etiology of the damage in the brain. Also we will seed to provide an overview on findings related to brain structure and functional imaging based on the study of concussions, sharing the accuracy in models of classification that were developed via a machine- learning algorithm that identified patients with concussion determined by imaging data.
Implications
When an individual suffers a brain hemorrhage, injury, trauma, and/or infectious lesion to the brain, the brain tissue reacts by getting inflamed with a proliferation of the glial cells and blood elements, which help in the re-absorption of the noxa, and in turn a scar is formed that basically consists of glial cells (Boboo, Jara, Mendes, Morari, Velloso, Araujo, 2019).
References
Bobbo, V. C. D., Jara, C. P., Mendes, N. F., Morari, J., Velloso, L. A., & Arajo, E. P. (2019). Interleukin-6 Expression by Hypothalamic Microglia in Multiple Inflammatory Contexts:
A Systematic Review.BioMed Research International, 111. https://doi-org.proxy
library.ashford.edu/10.1155/2019/1365210
Herrmann, A. M., Gbel, K., Simon, O. J., Melzer, N., Schuhmann, M. K., Stenner, M.-P.,
Meuth, S. G. (2010). Glatiramer Acetate Attenuates Pro-Inflammatory T Cell Responses but Does Not Directly Protect Neurons from Inflammatory Cell Death.The American Journal of Pathology,177(6), 30513060. https://doi-org.proxy-library.ashford.edu/10.2353/ajpath.2010.100442
Werff, Kathy R. Vander, and Brian Rieger. 2019. Auditory and Cognitive Behavioral
Performance Deficits and Symptom Reporting in Postconcussion Syndrome Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research62 (7): 250118. http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy-library.ashford.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&AN=EJ1222386&site=eds-live&scope=site.
