J Korean Soc Biol Psychiatry.  1998 Jun;5(1):71-82.

Neuropsychiatric Treatment of Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury

• Jung HY

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.

MeSH Terms

Aggression
Anxiety Disorders
Apathy
Arousal
Brain Injuries*
Cognition
Executive Function
Humans
Memory
Mood Disorders
Psychotic Disorders