Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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3161855 | Medical Journal Armed Forces India | 2007 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
In India 30,000 people die and 1,25,000 become disabled due traumatic brain injury (TBI). The psychiatric sequalae of TBI can be acute and chronic. Chronic sequalae of TBI are usually ignored and may take the form of defects of cognition, memory, perception, language or intelligence. It may also lead to inappropriate aggression, sexual behaviour, personality change, mood changes, neurosis and psychosis. Neuropsychological assessment of TBI can be pharmacological or behavioural. Survivors of TBI are referred to a walking wounded and require to be cared for.
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Authors
S Sudarsanan (Retd), S Chaudhary (Retd), AA Pawar, K Srivastava,