منابع مشابه
Predicting Post Traumatic Amnesia Patients'
The head injured (HI) population demonstrates a wide variety of impairment from person to person. Within single individuals the nature and severity of the injury can change rapidly as healing progresses. These complex cognitive, emotional, language and physical deficits often present cognitive rehab team members with diagnostic, prognostic, and treatment challenges (Hagen, 1981; Rollin, 1987). ...
متن کاملResolution of disorientation and amnesia during post-traumatic amnesia.
OBJECTIVES Despite the growing number of instruments for the prospective measurement of post-traumatic amnesia (PTA) after traumatic brain injury, fundamental issues about the natural history of its resolution and methods of examination remain unresolved. The aims of the present study were to: (1) examine the sequence of resolution of disorientation and amnesia, and (2) determine if the method ...
متن کامل[Post-traumatic amnesia and post-trauma quality of life].
The present study aims to compare quality of life of victims with long and short term post-traumatic amnesia and to analyze the relation between quality of life and length of amnesia, including or not the comatose period. This prospective cohort study, gathered data during the hospital stay and 3 and 6 months post- trauma. Blunt traumatic brain injury patients, over 14 years old, with no prior ...
متن کاملPost Traumatic Amnesia and Alcohol Dependence*
Post-traumatic amnesia was found to be prolonged in those who were alcohol dependents prior to the head injury. A comparison with controls who were matched for age and severity of head injury indicated that the PTA in the alcoholics was significantly longer. The pathophysiologic changes in the alcoholic brain that could explain such variations are discussed in the light of recent findings.
متن کاملPost-traumatic amnesia: still a valuable yardstick.
Records of coma and post-traumatic amnesia (PTA) were collected for a group of 38 patients with closed head injury. The results confirmed earlier studies indicating that patients may have short or negligible coma but report prolonged PTA. Comparison of eight patients with prolonged PTA (> 7 days) and short coma (< 6 hours) with the rest of the group on MRI in the acute stage showed that these p...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
سال: 1892
ISSN: 0022-3018
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-189202000-00021