Late effects of closed head injuries; psychiatric observations
| Autor: | E. Guttmann |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Rehabilitation business.industry medicine.medical_treatment 05 social sciences General Medicine 050108 psychoanalysis Environmental stress 050105 experimental psychology Craniocerebral trauma Head Injuries Closed Etiology Medicine Craniocerebral Trauma Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences business Contributory factor Psychiatry |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of mental science. 92 |
| ISSN: | 0368-315X |
| Popis: | The stages in the treatment of head injuries have been defined and a classification proposed. A number of observations on the frequency of late effects showed that prolonged after-effects after non-operative injuries occur in about 20 or 30 percent of the cases. There is evidence to show that constitutional predisposition is an important contributory factor in their aetiology; others are psychological and environmental stress. In that respect the chronic cases do not differ much from neurotics, though their predisposition is slightly less, their symptomatology slightly different. The prognosis is very similar. The psychological and social factors, susceptible to treatment and environmental manipulation, are of the greatest practical importance. The inevitable conclusion is that psychiatric methods, if not a psychiatrist, should be employed at an early stage of the treatment and rehabilitation of head injuries. |
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