FRONTAL LOBE PLASTICITY AFTER BRAIN INJURY IN CHILDHOOD

儿童期脑损伤后额叶的可塑性

• 批准号: 2026197
• 负责人: SHARON L NICHOLS
• 金额: $ 8.74万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-01-01 至 2001-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2026197
• 关键词: adolescence (12-20); behavioral /social science research tag; brain injury; clinical research; developmental neurobiology; developmental psychology; early experience; frontal lobe /cortex; functional ability; gender difference; human subject; infant human (0-1 year); language development; longitudinal human study; memory disorders; middle childhood (6-11); neural information processing; neural inhibition; neural plasticity; neuropsychological tests; perception disorder; psychological adaptation; psychophysiology; sensory mechanism; social adjustment

DESCRIPTION. Over recent years, it has become clear that the functional plasticity of the brain following damage sustained in infancy varies according to the functions being assessed and the anatomic areas affected by the damage. Although out understanding of the effect of early damage on language and visuospatial functions has increased greatly, studies of the executive functions normally associated with the frontal lobes, such as planning, problem solving, working memory and inhibition, have not been done with children who sustained early focal brain injury. Such research has the potential to provide information regarding the degree of functional plasticity of prefrontal cortex. By specifically looking for dissociations among aspects of informational processing hypothesized to underlie more complex frontal behaviors, this study also proposes to examine the separability of these functions in development and whether they are specifically related to distinct areas of the frontal lobes as has been seen in adults. A further goal of the study is to investigate whether damage to frontal areas is associated with greater developmental disabilities in adaptive and social functions than damage to posterior areas. These goals will be accomplished by comparing a group of children with unilateral, focal brain lesions sustained prior to 6 months of age with normally developing controls on a battery of executive functioning measures. Dissociations on specific measures of working memory and inhibitory functioning will be examined within the focal lesion group as well as within normally developing controls. Finally, the relationship of performance on these measures to social and adaptive functioning will be examined.

描述。 近年来，很明显该功能 婴儿期遭受损害后大脑的可塑性各不相同 根据正在评估的功能和受解剖区域的影响 损坏。 虽然了解早期损害对 语言和视觉空间功能大大提高，研究 执行功能通常与额叶相关，例如 计划，解决问题，工作记忆和抑制尚未完成 患有早期局灶性脑损伤的孩子。 这样的研究有 提供有关功能程度的信息 前额叶皮层的可塑性。 通过专门寻找解离 在参考处理的方面，假设的是更多的基础 复杂的额叶行为，本研究还建议检查 这些功能在开发中的可分离性以及它们是否是 正如所见 在成年人中。 该研究的另一个目标是调查是否损坏 额叶区域与更大的发育障碍有关 自适应和社会功能比对后部区域的损害。 这些目标将通过将一组儿童与 在6个月之前持续的单侧，局灶性脑损伤 通常，对一系列执行功能措施进行控制。 解离工作记忆和抑制作用 将在焦点病变组以及内部检查功能 通常开发控制。 最后，性能的关系 这些对社会和适应性功能的措施将进行检查。