Objective: To examine the approaches to on-road assessment of driver competence in
persons with brain impairment. Items examined were procedures, standardization, scoring …

Clinicians are often asked to make an assessment on whether a patient is medically fit to
drive, even though few have been formally trained in this area. Driving is a complex task that …

This book presents a review of research on reaction processes and attention as it has
evolved over the last 40 years in the context of the information processing tradition in …

To test the hypothesis that slowed information processing in traumatic brain injury is related
to diffuse axonal injury (DAI), the authors compared 10 patients with predominant DAI …

Following severe closed head injury, deficits in speed of information processing are
common. As a result, many head-injured patients experience a feeling of “information …

Thirty patients with stroke and 30 matched controls participated in the study (mean age 68
years, mean interval since stroke onset 8.6 months). The patients performed significantly …

Coleman RD, Rapport LJ, Ergh TC, Hanks RA, Ricker JH, Millis SR. Predictors of driving
outcome after traumatic brain injury. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2002; 83: 1415-22. Objective …

Multiple sclerosis (MS) can result in cognitive deficits and a loss of functional independence.
To date, little research has linked the observed cognitive and behavioral deficits in MS …

We surveyed 522 consecutive patients from a dementia clinic to assess duration of driving
after disease onset and instances of unsafe motor vehicle operation in the preceding 6 …

Reaction time (RT) is often used in the assessment of patients with traumatic brain injury
(TBI), presumably because it reflects either information processing speed or attentional …