Intactness of inhibitory saccade mechanism in minor traumatic head injury

Patients with traumatic brain injury often complain of impairments of atten tion and information processing in the absence of apparent neurological sig ns. We studied visual saccade distractibility in a group of patients within 24 hours after a minor traumatic head injury ( MTHI). A dual-task paradigm was applied. The results did not demonstrate any evidence of saccade distr actibility as a specific effect of MTHI. These findings suggest that saccad e inhibitory processing deficits may not be involved in the attention diffi culties in acute MTHI.