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Brain Damage in Relation to Psychiatric Disability After Head Injury

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

W. A. Lishman
W. A. Lishman*
Affiliation:
Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals and Hammersmith Hospital; Institute of Psychiatry; The Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5
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The extent to which psychiatric disability after head injury depends upon the brain damage which has occurred remains a problem of considerable practical and theoretical interest. In 1904 Adolf Meyer saw the need for caution in approaching this question since there was “no direct measure of the damage of a concussion”; similarly in 1945 Denny-Brown saw that the most serious obstacles to better understanding still lay in the difficulty of obtaining a reliable estimate of the severity of injury to the brain and in the impossibility of differentiating clinically between simple skull fracture, laceration or contusion of the brain.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 114 , Issue 509 , April 1968 , pp. 373 - 410
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1968 

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