Neuropsychiatric Treatment of Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury.
- Author:
Han Yong JUNG
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Traumatic brain injury;
Psychopharmacological treatment;
Cognitive treatment;
Behavioral treatment;
Psychological intervention
- MeSH:
Aggression;
Anxiety Disorders;
Apathy;
Arousal;
Brain Injuries*;
Cognition;
Executive Function;
Humans;
Memory;
Mood Disorders;
Psychotic Disorders
- From:Journal of the Korean Society of Biological Psychiatry
1998;5(1):71-82
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
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Abstract:
The neuropsychiatric sequelae of traumatic brain injury are effects on complex aspect of cognition, emotion and behavior. They include problems with attention and arousal, concentration, executive function, intellectual changes, memory inpairments, personality changes, affective disorders, anxiety disorders, psychosis, apathy, aggression, and irritability. There are many useful therapeutic approaches available for people who have been brain injuries. Although a multifactioral, multidisciplinary, collaborative approach to treatment is proposed, for purposes of exposition the author have divided treatment into psychopharmacological, cognitive, behavioral, psychological, and social interventions.
