The Epidemiology Of Head Injury In Children/ Young Adults: A Study From British Comumbia, Canada.

Traumatic brain injury is a potentially devastating condition that affects many young adults and is increasingly seen in older people. In addition to initial insult to the neuronal tissue at the time injury, patients with traumatic brain injury may suffer from many physical and psychological complications. These complications further protract the path of recovery and pose challenges in treatment of this group of patients. In this chapter we aim to discuss early and late phase complications following traumatic brain injury and summarize the role of neurorehabilitation in the care of patients with head injury, with the understanding that classification by timing is an inexact science and there is considerable overlap between early and late complications.

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CHILDREN OR YOUNG ADULTS? A POPULATION-BASED STUDY ON ADOLESCENT HEAD INJURY

ANZ Journal of Surgery ◽

10.1111/j.1445-2197.2006.03723.x ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 76 (5) ◽

pp. 343-350 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Biswadev Mitra ◽

Peter A. Cameron ◽

Warwick Butt ◽

Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld

Keyword(s):

Young Adults ◽

Head Injury ◽

Population Based ◽

Population Based Study

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Long-term effects of severe closed head injury on memory: evidence from a consecutive series of young adults

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica ◽

10.1111/j.1600-0404.1984.tb00826.x ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 70 (4) ◽

pp. 285-298 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

J. M. Bennett-Levy

Keyword(s):

Young Adults ◽

Head Injury ◽

Closed Head Injury ◽

Consecutive Series ◽

Long Term Effects ◽

Closed Head

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Trauma-triggered migraine: an explanation for common neurological attacks after mild head injury

Journal of Neurosurgery ◽

10.3171/jns.1988.68.2.0181 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 68 (2) ◽

pp. 181-188 ◽

Cited By ~ 51

Author(s):

David C. Haas ◽

Herbert Lourie

Keyword(s):

Cerebrospinal Fluid ◽

Young Adults ◽

Head Injury ◽

Clinical Features ◽

Brain Function ◽

Mild Head Injury ◽

Historical Account ◽

Content Type ◽

Current Thinking ◽

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✓ This paper reviews the literature on complex temporary disturbances of brain function triggered by mild blows to the head in children, adolescents, and young adults. It consolidates the evidence by which these attacks have been identified as classical or complicated migraines, and provides a historical account of the descriptions and proffered explanations of these attacks. The clinical features and the electroencephalography, angiography, computerized tomography, and cerebrospinal fluid findings of trauma-induced migraine are presented and compared to those of spontaneous migraine. Ideas about the pathogenesis of this condition are related to current thinking on the neurological phenomena of migraine in general.

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