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Dementia Due to Head Trauma
Prolonged or permanent changes in cognition, memory, emotions, or behavior may follow head injury of any severity. The term post–head injury dementia encompasses heterogeneous phenomena, reflecting the range of types and degrees of head injury and the variety of patients who experience them.
The generic Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth edition (DSM-IV) definition of dementia (ie, amnesia plus 1 of the following: agnosia, aphasia, apraxia, or disturbance of executive function) provides a poor description of dementia following head injury. This dementia usually is of the subcortical subtype. In subcortical dementia, impairments of memory, language, praxis, and sensation are relatively less prominent than in Alzheimer disease or other cortical dementias. Changes in personality, disturbed executive functioning, and altered experience and expression of emotion are relatively more apparent.
Broad as it is, the term post–head injury dementia fails to describe all the neuropsychiatric sequelae of brain trauma. Head injuries may damage almost any brain structure. They may be psychologically traumatic, and they precipitate major life changes. Consequently, almost any psychiatric symptom or syndrome may follow head injury. The DSM-IV allows for diagnoses of psychotic disorder, mania, major depression, anxiety disorder, or personality changes secondary to head injury. Adjustment disorders and posttraumatic stress disorder also may develop.
Patients with head injury may require treatment with psychotropic medication for depression, mania, psychosis, aggression, irritability, emotional lability, insomnia, apathy, or impaired concentration. Headaches also may respond to psychopharmacologic treatment.
But on the first place - rehabilitation
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Bozhenka, I have to say that your knowledge and discussion are very impressive! Good luck to you!
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These are my notes, that I have done during my study process, and when I reply on you questions I review all materials and I study and remember better.
And you can see, that my english not so good, I have been learning english for 6 months only
Discussion it's very useful in my opinion.
Thanks for you questions :wink:
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I am an IMG also; please correct me if you see something wrong. I didn't see any problem with your English so far; you do a good job! 
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