Jessica Bush

English 102

Lauren Allan

21 February 2017

Extended Annotated Bibliography

Barry, Nicole C., and Jennifer L. Tomes. "Remembering your past: The effects of concussion on

autobiographical memory recall." Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology37.9

(2015): 994-1003. Web.

This one was a study that took 125 undergraduate students, 67 who had not experienced a

brain injury and 58 who had, and tested their memories by doing a MAB-II vocabulary scale, a

verbal fluency test, and a portion of a cognitive assessment. They were also given a questionnaire

and individuals who had reported having a brain injury were given a concussion inventory. All of

the individuals were also given an autobiographical memory survey. One thing that stood out

from the results of this study was the autobiographical part of the survey. They both reported the

same amount of memories but how they remembered them was very different. When they

analyzed the answers and found that when the people who had experienced a brain injury wrote

down the memories they were a lot shorter and used less descriptive words. This study was

similar to the Autobiographical and episodic memory deficits in mild traumatic brain injury

article, but one thing that stood out that was different was that this one also looked at how many

concussions that these individuals had.

I thought that this was very interesting that they still remembered these memories they

just didnt have a lot of detail. I feel like this is kind of how my memory is too so I was able to

connect with that. I really liked how they talked about having multiple concussions and the
results they found from that. This was interesting and I will most likely use this source the most

in my paper because I also had multiple brain injuries so it is more applicable to me and my

research. With this source I can talk more about the effects of multiple concussions and relate

that to my over all topic and question. I think this will be more interesting and give more detail,

especially because I had more than one concussion.

Register-Mihalik, Johna K., Kevin M. Guskiewicz, Tamara C. Valovich Mcleod, Laura A.

Linnan, Frederick O. Mueller, and Stephen W. Marshall. "Knowledge, Attitude, and Concussion-

Reporting Behaviors Among High School Athletes: A Preliminary Study." Journal of Athletic

Training48.5 (2013): 645-53. Web.

This article talks about high school athletes knowledge and attitude about reporting concussions.

It has results from different surveys that asked about symptoms they had when they did have a

concussion, their knowledge about concussions, and theyre attitude about reporting concussions.

It has charts of all the results so it is easy to see how the students responded.

This article can be very useful in my paper because the things it talks about are very

relevant to concussions in high school athletes. I have been there and I would answer those

questions very differently now than I would have back when I had my concussions. This is a big

problem with athletes and can make the concussion a lot worse than it would have been

originally if they wouldve just reported it. This is an important part of my paper because it will

give the reader more background information about concussions in high school athletes.

Roche, Nadine L., Anna Moody, Krisztina Szabo, Jennifer M. Fleming, and David H. K. Shum.

"Prospective memory in adults with traumatic brain injury: An analysis of perceived reasons for

remembering and forgetting." Neuropsychological Rehabilitation17.3 (2007): 314-34. Web.

 This talked about a research study that was done that had 38 individuals who had

experiences a brain injury, and 34 who had not. They rated their memories using a series of

questions relating to remembering and forgetting. Significant others of the individuals also rated

also did the same thing about their significant others memory. They found that there were

significant differences on certain questions between the people who have had a brain injury and

those who had not experienced a brain injury, while some questions there werent many

differences. Most of the questions in this research were about day to day memory problems, like

forgetting to do things and having to have people remind them to do certain things. It also asked

about if they remember more if it is important to them or if they remember more if it is important

to somebody else.

This was a very interesting study to read about and what I found most shocking was that

it was only certain questions that differed between the concussed and the control. When I was

reading through the questions that they asked I would have thought that all of them would have

been very different and very opposite answers, but it was only certain questions that were, and

the others didnt differ between the concussed group and the control group. This doesnt relate to

my topic very much because I want to mainly focus on autobiographical memories, however, it

was good background information and I can still relate some of the stuff to my research.

Shields, Brenda J., Soledad A. Fernandez, and Gary A. Smith. "Epidemiology of Cheerleading

Stunt-Related Injuries in the United States." Journal of Athletic Training44.6 (2009): 586-94.

Web.

This is an article about cheerleading injuries. It talks about all the different teams and

sections of cheerleading and analyzes the injuries from them. They mainly focus on stunting

injuries and concussions from stunting. It talks about the different stunts, the floor they were on
when they did them and the mechanism of the injury. It talks about different injuries that have

happened and analyzes how they happened and why.

I found it very interesting that sixty percent of cheerleading injuries are from stunting.

This is interesting to me because that it how I got 3 out of my 5 concussions. I thought it was

really interesting how much they analyzed each of the injuries and the different details of it. This

article will be very useful in my paper because it will help explain how concussions can happen

in this sport. This will give the reader background about the nature of this sport and the injuries

that can happen in it. This will help me lead into how I got injured and how that effects my

memory.

Wammes, Jeffrey D., Tyler J. Good, and Myra A. Fernandes. Autobiographical and episodic

memory deficits in mild traumatic brain injury. Brain and Cognition 111 (2017): 112-26. Web.

This article talks about a study that was done to look at the differences in how people

who have had a traumatic brain injury remember things versus how people who have not had a

traumatic brain injury remember things. They did this study with 39 people, 22 who had never

experienced a mild traumatic brain injury, and 17 that had. They asked these people a selection

of neuropsychological tasks, as well as episodic free recall, a scored autobiographical interview,

and a feature-based semantic priming task. They then analyzed the results and found that those

who had experienced a brain injury had differences in their free recall performance as well as

preservation of semantic, and deterioration of episodic content. They also found that they

reported significantly fewer episodic details in their personal memories.

This is very interesting to me because it answers my main question. I will be able to use a

lot of the things I they found through this research in my own research. I thought it was very

interesting how they talked about how detailed the memories were from the people who hadnt
had concussions compared to how brief and simple the memories were of the people who have

had concussions. This will be a very interesting piece to talk about in my research paper because

it answers my main question but also brings up different points that cause me to ask further

questions. This was a very similar study to the Remembering your past: The effects of

concussion on autobiographical memory recall study. In my paper, I can compare and contrast

these two articles and what they found. A lot of it is similar, so that makes their points more valid

and can help me to confirm what I am saying.

Waters, Nicole. "What goes up must come down! A primary care approach to preventing injuries

amongst highflying cheerleaders." Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners25.2

(2013): 55-64. Web.

This article talks about cheerleading and the injuries and causes of injuries. Concussions

are the most common traumatic injury in cheerleading. The article goes over the causes for this

and the effects it has. It also talks about safety and what they can do to prevent this from

happening. It talks about the age of cheerleaders and how concussions and other injuries can

have an impact on them. It also talks about other factors that could potentially make cheerleading

an unsafe sport.

Since I got my concussions from cheerleading I think it would be really interesting to tie

this into my research. This will also be useful because it mainly talks about concussions. By

focusing on concussions from cheerleading it relates more to myself and will be a good source

for my paper. It also has very good background information that I can use about the sport and the

injuries and safety concerns with it. I will probably use this at the start of my research paper

when I am talking about my experience with concussions. I can put this in there to help my

reader understand the nature of the sport and what happened to me.
Colvin, Alexis C., and Abigail Lynn. "SportsRelated Injuries in the Young Female

Athlete." Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine: A Journal of Translational and Personalized

Medicine. Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 20 May 2010. Web. 01 Apr.

2017.

This source talks about injuries in young female athletes. It mainly talks about gymnastic, soccer,

volleyball, and dance, but there is a small section about cheerleading. Since cheerleading

combines gymnastics and dance, the information in those paragraphs are still relevant, as well as

the section about cheerleading. It goes over the statistics of the injuries in the sports and

discusses how they happen. This was written by two female doctors from the Mount Sinai

School of Medicine in New York.

I can use this to show how this differs from male athletes. Since cheerleading is a mostly female

sport I can show how it differs and the different risks females are under than males. I can use this

evidence to explain further my points of how this sport can be made safer.

Culverhouse, Gay. Throwaway players: the concussion crisis: from pee wee football to the NFL.

Lake Forest, CA: Behler Publications, 2012. Print.

I read this book for school my junior year. It was written by the former president of the tampa

bay buccaneers. she talks about concussions in football, but the information is still relevant

because the same pressures that are in football are in cheerleading. It also talks a lot about the

epidemiology of concussions and the long-lasting effects that they have. The books main point is

that the nfl throws players away after theyre injured and doesnt help the players. It talks about

the different proteins in the brain and how concussions can change that.
I can use this on my website to help explain what is chemically happening to our brains when we

experience brain injuries. I think the way she explains it is very easy to understand and it shows

the seriousness of the injury. Using this will draw my reader in and they will see the impact that

these injuries can have on athletes.

Shields, Brenda J., and Gary A. Smith. "Epidemiology of Cheerleading Fall-Related Injuries in

the United States." Journal of Athletic Training44.6 (2009): 578-85. Web.

This article is about the epidemiology of cheerleading injuries that are from falls. It goes over

falls on different surfaces and the injuries that happened from them. It analyzes different injuries

that happened during a certain time period. It also talks about how injuries are increasing.

I will use this to show that injuries are increasing and that it is a problem that needs to be fixed. I

can use this as one of my main points to show that things need to be fixed. I can also use this to

show one of my points of how to make it safer by talking about their analysis of the injuries that

happened.