Psychiatric Disorders and Traumatic Brain Injury: What Is The Connection?

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) may be the disorder that breaks down the remaining barriers between neurology and psychiatry. In many respects, TBI represents the quintessential neuropsychiatric paradigm: It is diffi cult to appreciate what an individual with TBI and their family experience without understanding the brain regions typically effected by biomechanical trauma. It is equally critical to understand the effect of injury-related neurobehavioral sequelae on rehabilitation and outcome after TBI. Broadly speaking, the neurobehavioral effects of TBI can be organized as changes in cognition, changes in personality, and enhanced risk for a host of psychiatric disorders. However, these broad categories interact with each other in ways that can challenge clinicians used to 1. List the three common categories of neurobehavioral consequences of TBI.