NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL SEQUELAE OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY

Authors

  • Mar Ariza González
  • Roser Pueyo Bonito
  • Josep María Serra Grabulosa
Keywords: traumatic brain injury, neuropsychology, sequelae, neuroimage, assessment

Abstract

Nowadays, the clinical neuropsychologist faces a great number of patients surviving to a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) with neurological sequelae, partially due to the improvement of the therapeutic techniques. TBI neuropsychological impairment is directly related to underlying physiopathological mechanisms and biological and demographic variables. The knowledge of the physiopathology and the execution of neuroimaging studies, which provide structural and functional data, are necessary for the judgment of TBI effects. The prototype to moderate to severe TBI lesion prototype is probably generalized, non-specific damage, but with greater involvement of the frontal and temporal lobe regions. Brain damage is reflected on the impaired neuropsychological functions after a TBI, which are mainly attention, memory, frontal functions, emotion and behaviour.

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Author Biographies

Mar Ariza González

Universidad de Barcelona

Roser Pueyo Bonito

Universidad de Barcelona

Josep María Serra Grabulosa

Universidad de Barcelona
How to Cite
Ariza González, M., Pueyo Bonito, R., & Serra Grabulosa, J. M. (2004). NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL SEQUELAE OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY. Anales de Psicología / Annals of Psychology, 20(2), 303–316. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/analesps/article/view/27501
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Monographic issue: current lines in neuropsychology