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Review

  • Korean Journal of Biological Psychiatry
  • Volume 5(1); 1998
  • Article

Review

Korean Journal of Biological Psychiatry 1998;5(1):71-83. Published online: Jan, 1, 1998

Neuropsychiatric Treatment of Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury

  • Han Yong Jung, MD
    Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Soonchunhyang University, Seoul, Korea
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.

Keywords Traumatic brain injury;Psychopharmacological treatment;Cognitive treatment;Behavioral treatment;Psychological intervention.