But it's the psychiatric disorder that determines functional impairment.
Psychiatric disorders commonly develop after traumatic injury. To examine how mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) affects the risk for psychiatric disorders, investigators in Australia prospectively followed 1084 individuals hospitalized for more than 24 hours with traumatic injury (age range, 16–70).
Forty percent of participants had mTBI (patients with more-severe TBI were excluded). Researchers assessed patients in person at discharge and by telephone at 3 and 12 months (semistructured diagnostic interviews and specific measures for post-traumatic stress disorder).
At 12 months, 25% of patients with mTBI and 20% without mTBI had a new psychiatric diagnosis. The most common new diagnoses were depression (12%), generalized anxiety disorder (1…
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DisclosuresRoyaltiesTextbook of Traumatic Brain Injury, 2nd and 3rd editions
Editorial BoardsUpToDate; Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
Leadership Positions in Professional SocietiesNorth American Brain Injury Association (Board Member); National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (Chair of Data Monitoring Safety Board for study of donepezil on cognition after traumatic brain injury)
DisclosuresRoyaltiesTextbook of Traumatic Brain Injury, 2nd and 3rd editions
Editorial BoardsUpToDate; Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
Leadership Positions in Professional SocietiesNorth American Brain Injury Association (Board Member); National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (Chair of Data Monitoring Safety Board for study of donepezil on cognition after traumatic brain injury)