We’re all very proud of Melissa Stockbridge, who successfully defended her dissertation, “The role of personality on cognitive-linguistic deficits in teens and adults with mild TBI.” Dispositional negativity — here indexed using BFI-2-N — strongly predicts patient reports of symptoms in the months following a concussion. In fact, Melissa showed that this is true even if you censor overlapping content. In contrast, patient disposition was unrelated to computerized measures of cognitive function. Collectively, these results suggest that everyday clinical decision-making (e.g. return to play) can be biased by patient personality, and underscore the promise of developing clinic-friendly e-cog technology for objective testing. A key challenge for the future will be to prospectively assess these personality-symptom relations in high-risk individuals (e.g. student-athletes, combat personnel). Congratulations, Dr. Stockbridge!