Neuropsychiatric Treatment of Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury

외상성 뇌 손상 환자의 신경정신과 영역 치료

  • Jung, Han Yong (Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Soonchunhyang University)
  • 정한용 (순천향대학교 의과대학 정신과학교실)
  • Published : 1998.06.25

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.

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