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With StarBuilder Inspirations, Laura Murray''s breakthrough method puts breathtaking stars within the reach of everyday quilters and sewers. Laura''s simple recipe of paint, cut, and fuse opens the door to a galaxy of possibilities.

When the Gingerbread Man''s class mixes science and math to make paper airplanes, they get to launch them outside-what fun! But-uh-oh!-his friend Maya''s plane gets stuck high in a tree. How can they possibly get it down? Luckily, this smart cookie is also brave and has an adventurous plan to rescue the plane!

"The Gingerbread Man and a class of students use dough shapes to bake a new, barking friend, along with a doghouse for him to call home"--

Students at school learn how to make paper airplanes, but when Maya gets hers stuck in a tree The Gingerbread Man figures how to rescue it.

Background: A growing body of literature has indicated that various executive functioning (EF) abilities are compromised subsequent to right hemisphere brain damage (RHD). EF supports communication and other complex daily activities via planning, monitoring, and controlling other cognitive processes to accomplish goal-oriented behaviors. Individuals with intact EF can achieve desirable tasks through fine cognitive control that includes skills such as planning, problem-solving, cognitive flexibility, and self-monitoring. The ability to use and understand pragmatics and discourse is dependent on one or more of these EF abilities. Consequently, if one of these cognitive abilities is impaired, communication challenges are expected. For example, problems with inhibition subsequent to RHD can affect the ability to select and process only relevant contextual cues, which can, in turn, lead to inappropriate conversational content, style, or both, as well as misinterpreting the conversation output of others.Objectives: To date, no previous systematic review has focused on EF abilities and RHD. The goals of this systematic review are: (a) to examine the RHD literature to identify EF deficits and the standardized EF assessments used to detect these deficits and (b) to evaluate the psychometric properties of EF assessments being used in this literature.Methods: A comprehensive list of established search terms is developed and divided into four subcategories: right hemisphere, brain injury, EF abilities, and assessments. The search strategy will include searching the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health (CINAHL), Scopus, PsychInfo, and PubMed electronic databases between 1980 and November 2018. Titles and abstracts of peer-reviewed articles of any study types will be screened to meet the inclusion criteria, followed by a second screening of full-text articles. For the studies that meet the inclusion criteria, various data regarding EF abilities and demographic information will be extracted. Moreover, two assessment tools will be adapted and used to rate the quality of the included articles, as well as the quality of the assessments.Future directions/implications: This systematic review will allow researchers and clinicians alike to identify gaps within the RHD literature pertaining to EF abilities, the type of assessments available and currently used in RHD investigations, as well as the type of clinical and demographic data being collected to characterize individuals with RHD. This study will drive research forward by shedding light on whether more accurate information collected regarding RHD is needed, and the type of assessments used when researchers and clinicians diagnose RHD participants with EF deficits.

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Mild head injury (MHI; concussion) is a major health concern worldwide as thousands of people each year suffer from an impact to the head or body sufficient to cause concussion. Acceleration/deceleration and rotational forces cause axons to stretch and tear, particularly in the area of the ventromedial prefrontal cortices (vmPFC), which in turn can attenuate physiological autonomic arousal and disrupt emotional regulation (Bechara, Damasio, & Damasio, 2000; Fisher, Rushby, McDonald, Parks, & Piguet, 2015; Pardini, Krueger, Raymont, & Grafman, 2010). Diminished levels of visceral feedback leaves one at a disadvantage for predicting, anticipating and reacting to environmental events. Therefore, individuals with MHI are described as experiencing heightened or exaggerated reactions to situations as they are not psychologically, or physiologically, prepared for stressful events. Some of these overreactions may be viewed as aggressive, others may be viewed as symptoms of anxiety; and in fact, many studies indicate these to be common complications following head injury. Diagnoses of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) are particularly frequent in a head injury population, however its characteristics may not capture the symptoms individuals with MHI experience. Whereas worry or maladaptive anticipation of adverse outcomes are the cardinal features of GAD and, reportedly, serve to control the physiological reactions that accompany uncertainty (Behar, DiMarco, Hekler, Mohlman, & Staples, 2009; Roemer & Borkovec, 1993) an absence of hypervigilance and lessened alertness is more likely in persons with MHI. To examine these variances in symptom characteristics, 84 participants (39% with MHI) completed self-report measures of aggression, dimensions of anxiety (cognitive, affective, somatic), worry, and somatization. Electrodermal activation (EDA) was measured as an indicator of autonomic physiological arousal across 4 phases of a stress manipulation (Initial Baseline, Anticipatory, Scare, Final Baseline). Having a history of MHI was not associated with significant expressive/reactive aggression; those with a GAD diagnoses endorsed the most number of aggressive symptoms. Similarly, individuals with GAD reported the highest levels of anxiety across all anxiety measures and subtypes. However, in line with our predictions, students with MHI reported the highest levels of somatic anxiety symptoms relative to affective and cognitive symptoms, and somatic anxiety was positively correlated with severity of the injury (i.e., the more severe the injury, the higher levels of somatic anxiety reported). Further, as expected, whereas the GAD group reported the highest level of worry-related symptoms, neither a history of MHI, nor injury severity, was correlated with worry. While no significant difference between EDA levels was noted in the baseline or experimental conditions, the pattern of results across the manipulation was as anticipated with the MHI group displaying the lowest level at baseline and anticipation, and the largest reaction to the scare phase. The GAD group did not demonstrate the expected reduction in autonomic responsivity. However, EDA levels for the MHI group alone had a significant negative correlation to the Anticipatory phase and trending towards a significant positive correlation in the Scare phase. Together, these findings indicate a fundamental difference in types of anxiety and vigilance symptoms found in persons with GAD versus MHI. A dampened baseline and anticipatory physiological response can result in a decreased ability to predict outcomes, and exaggerated reactions, especially in times of uncertainty (Bechara et al., 2000; Damasio & Bishop, 1996). Frequent and ongoing behavioural outbursts are observed in persons with TBI (traumatic brain injury), but may reflect autonomic, as opposed to affective, underlying neural mechanisms. Acknowledging and understanding these subtle differences in symptom description can provide insight into more effective treatment paradigms.