Mild Head Injury

Mild Head Injury

Sundström, Anna (2006). Mild head injury: Relation to cognition, dementia, fatigue, and genetics. Doctoral dissertation from the Department of Psychology, Umeå University, SE-901 87, Umeå, Sweden: ISBN 91-7264-158-4. Following a mild head injury (MHI), a person may report a variety of symptoms such as headache, memory disturbance, dizziness, and concentration difficulties. For most persons the ...

Pathologic changes in mild head injury.

Mild Head Injury and Posttraumatic Headache

Posttraumatic headache (PTH) is the most common symptom following mild head injury. These headaches are often very difficult to manage because of the problems in evaluating and treating a subjective symptom, the unclear clinical picture, and minimal evidence of organic abnormality. This document will provide a detailed review of PTH and the psychological / physiological factors contributing to ...

Can mild head injury cause ischaemic stroke?

Five cases of ischaemic stroke preceded by minor head trauma in children are described. All patients had striatocapsular infarction. Three had no cerebrovascular abnormality; two had turbulent flow in the proximal middle cerebral artery. None of the patients had evidence of arterial dissection or any other risk factors for stroke. All made an excellent neurological recovery. Possible mechanisms...

Executive functioning following mild closed head injury.

This study was aimed to identify impaired attentional components in mild CHI patients. The CHI features taken into account were age (< or = 30 vs. > 30 years), loss of consciousness (yes vs. no), and time after injury (few days vs. some months). The groups tested were composed of 26 patients and 26 controls (matched for age, sex and education). Experiment 1 used a dual-task paradigm (Umiltà et ...