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Psychiatric sequelae of acquired brain injury

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Ken Barrett
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Improvements over recent decades in acute care of the brain-injured now ensure that all but the most severely injured survive. The legacy of that survival is an increasing number of people with enduring organic mental disorders. Here, I will focus upon the psychiatric sequelae of five types of severe single-insult brain injury: head trauma, subarachnoid haemorrhage, and hypoxic, hypoglycaemic and postencephalitic injury. Thrombotic stroke is a common and important cause of brain injury but the psychiatric consequences have been more extensively studied and are fairly well-known (Robinson & Price, 1982; Starkstein et al, 1987). Damage due to alcohol and associated malnutrition is also well-documented (Jacobson & Lishman, 1987, 1990). Neither will be specifically addressed here, though some of the consequences of brain injury are similar, regardless of cause.

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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , July 1999 , pp. 250 - 258
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 1999 

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