Effects of traumatic brain injury on a virtual reality social problem solving task and relations to cortical thickness in adolescence

▶ Utilizes a virtual reality (VR) task as a medium for assessing social skills. ▶ Reinforces sensitivity/ecological validity of VR tasks as behavioral assessment tools. ▶ Children with TBI demonstrated significantly impaired social problem solving skills. ▶ Virtual reality task performance was related to cortical thickness in certain regions.