Mental Disorder following Head Injury

An aggressive seizure and behavioural disorder following trivial head injury

We report on a normal 6-year-old boy in whom a trivial head injury triggered a severe seizure, behavioural and cognitive disorder. Complete recovery occurred within 6 months. An aetiology such as trivial head injury is significant for prognosis as the outcome is invariably excellent.

Hallucinosis following Head Injury

Eleven patients who evinced hallucinations during the early recovery after head injury were studied in detail in comparison to the head injured controls. All of them had suffered from acceleration injuries. Among the clinical variables, post traumatic amnesia was significantly longer in these patients. Length of FTA was found to be correlated with duration of occurrence of hallucinations. Sever...

Mental health after head injury.

Paramnestic Delusions following Head Injury

Paramnesic delusions are rare psychiatric sequelae after head injury. In a follow-up of 346 patients only three such cases were seen. Case histories of those patients with a follow-up for eighteen months, their clinical features, psychometric evaluations etc. are described, followed by a discussion into their genesis and persistence.

Postoperative mental disorder following prolonged oral surgery.

A prolonged period of oral surgery is a potential risk factor of postoperative mental disorders although no such report has been published to date. We retrospectively studied perioperative features in 36 patients who underwent prolonged (10 hours or more) of oral surgery. Patients were categorized as pre-delirium (Pre-D) when they manifested 1 or 2 symptoms and delirium (D) when they showed mor...