CLINICAL INDICES OF HEAD INJURY AND MEMORY IMPAIRMENT

In a prospective follow-up of memory functions after head injury, 61 patients were tested with P.G.I. Memory Scale at the end of 18 months. Patients with acceleration injuries showed a poor performance in comparison to those with contact injuries. Memory was found to be related to indices of severit...

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Autores principales: Sabhesan, S., Arumugham, R., Natarajan, M.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1990
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2990845/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21927483
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description In a prospective follow-up of memory functions after head injury, 61 patients were tested with P.G.I. Memory Scale at the end of 18 months. Patients with acceleration injuries showed a poor performance in comparison to those with contact injuries. Memory was found to be related to indices of severity of injury, particularly post traumatic amnesia (PTA). Presence of fracture of skull or early neurological deficits was not associated with poor performance. Among contact injury patients, lateralization and location of the injury were not found to be discriminatory. Behaviour changes during follow-up were not significantly related to memory impairment.
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spelling pubmed-29908452011-09-16 CLINICAL INDICES OF HEAD INJURY AND MEMORY IMPAIRMENT Sabhesan, S. Arumugham, R. Natarajan, M. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article In a prospective follow-up of memory functions after head injury, 61 patients were tested with P.G.I. Memory Scale at the end of 18 months. Patients with acceleration injuries showed a poor performance in comparison to those with contact injuries. Memory was found to be related to indices of severity of injury, particularly post traumatic amnesia (PTA). Presence of fracture of skull or early neurological deficits was not associated with poor performance. Among contact injury patients, lateralization and location of the injury were not found to be discriminatory. Behaviour changes during follow-up were not significantly related to memory impairment. Medknow Publications 1990 /pmc/articles/PMC2990845/ /pubmed/21927483 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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CLINICAL INDICES OF HEAD INJURY AND MEMORY IMPAIRMENT
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title_short CLINICAL INDICES OF HEAD INJURY AND MEMORY IMPAIRMENT
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