We find Brewin's (2016) critiques of the narratives, power, and coherence measures in Rubin et al. (2016) without merit; his suggestions for a "revised formulation" (p. 1015) of coherence are contradicted by data readily available in the target article but ignored. We place Brewin's commentary in a historical context and show that it reiterates views of trauma memory fragmentation that are unsu...

The following observations refer to a short series of cases, in which patients, after sustaining severe head injuries, exhibited certain peculiar rhythmical and co-ordinated movements, which, when carefully observed and analysed, turned out to be simply reproductions of the actions habitually gone through by them in the pursuit of their several trades. Observation I.?A strong, muscular young ma...

A study of 80 head injured patients revealed poor premorbid academic performance in up to 50% of the sample. Poor academic performance, as defined by diagnosis of learning disability, multiple failed academic subjects, or school dropout during secondary education, is not a previously cited risk factor for head injury. These findings have important implications in the identification of a high ri...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Dynamic cerebral autoregulation has been shown to be fast and effective, but it is not well known if the mechanism is symmetric, that is to say, it acts with equal compensatory action to upward as compared with downward abrupt changes in arterial blood pressure (ABP). METHODS Fourteen patients with head injuries and 10 normal subjects had bilateral transcranial Doppler ...

This study examined the concordance of trauma registry and hospital records in Queensland in 1998. The design involved a retrospective review of records and documentation comparison. Demographic variables from the registry were matched to hospital data to obtain admission/diagnoses data. There were four main types of error identified which included: failure to identify relevant patients, inappr...

The Edinburgh surgeon-apothecary and physician George Young was an empiric who emphasised observation, practical experience and a sceptical approach to evidence in medicine. He was an early member of the Rankenian Club, a group of young intellectuals whose ideas were to be at the heart of Scottish Enlightenment thinking. Young certainly influenced his pupil Robert Whytt, who went on to make imp...

The authors report the case of a 29 years old male patient presenting classical Guillain-Barré syndrome following head trauma. Only one other similar case is described in the literature. Head trauma as a precipitating event of the disease is discussed.

A variant of the list method directed forgetting procedure was used to examine the role of inhibition in memory performance following severe closed-head injury (CHI). Twenty-four participants with severe CHI and 24 controls studied picture and word stimuli in both forget and remember conditions. Memory testing for the to-be-forgotten and to-be-remembered items consisted of a free-recall test fo...

Penetrating injuries to the orbit represent a small but very complicated portion of head injuries. Because of the close proximity to many vital structures, any penetrating orbital injury requires a multidisciplinary follow-up. Cases of penetrating injuries have flooded the literature, but no one has presented a systematic approach to the complications associated with these types of injuries. He...