Neuropsychological Assessment of Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

Psychological Injury and Law: Defining a Field

“…The seven major areas of the journal, as evidenced by its sections and the articles written in this introductory series of articles to initiate the journal, concern law, forensic psychology, disability, assessment/malingering, and the three areas of PTSD, chronic pain, and TBI, concentrating on the mild case (mTBI; for moderate and serious TBI as psychological injury, see Patry and Mateer 2006). In this article, I review the areas of law, forensic psychology, disability, and assessment/malingering.…”

Análise longitudinal por imagens de tensor de difusão do encéfalo de pacientes com lesão axonial difusa traumática moderada e severa

“…Following recovery from transient loss of consciousness and partial or complete recuperation of acute neurological deficits caused by head trauma, DAI survivors may present persistent disabilities, loss of productivity and impaired quality of life (1,2). Cognitive impairments depend on multiple variables, such as the trauma severity, rehabilitation and even genetic factors (65)(66)(67). A neuropsychological assessment indicated compromise of all cognitive functions in the patients group in our study up to one year after trauma, but there was significant improvement of episodic verbal memory and attention domains along time.…”