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A Violon

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PubMed1988

Post-traumatic psychoses.

The incidence of post-traumatic psychoses can be appraised as 3-4 per cent in the adults who suffered a head injury. Post-traumatic psychoses appear as not directly provoked by the head injury but rather as precipitated by it, usually in young male patients with previous psychological disturbances which were more or less compensated formerly. In half the cases, the psychosis described as an acute delusional state totally disappears after a few days or weeks.

Brain Damage, Chronic↗
PubMed1987

Psychological sequelae after head traumas in adults.

Head trauma can generate various psychopathological sequelae either in intellectual functions or personality. The post-traumatic sequelae that are focused on in this work are memory disturbances, dementia and personality problems. It partially sums up fifteen years of psychological studies on head injuries conducted in the department of neurosurgery of Prof. Jean Brihaye.

Attention↗
PubMed1982

[Post traumatic schizophrenic bouts: with regard to 6 cases of traumatic schizophrenia (author's transl)].

The authors describe 6 cases of post-traumatic schizophrenia and make a critical review of the literature concerning this unusual post-traumatic personality disturbance. Various schizophrenic manifestations are observed: they principally consist of delusion, hallucination, paranoid and mystical ideas, autism, psychomotor instability, fugues. Post-traumatic schizophrenia occurs mostly in young men, before thirty years. The severity of traumatic brain injury appears irrelevant in its genesis. Temporal lobes are more often involved (one third of the cases). Pre-traumatic personality disturbances are the main factor as demonstrated by the anamnesis and by the results of Rorschach test.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1980

The onset of facial pain. A psychological study.

13, mostly male, cases of cluster headache and 15, mostly female, cases of atypical facial neuralgia were submitted to the psychosomatic anamnestic interview of Seguin. A very high proportion of patients in both groups had suffered from early deprivation of physical gratification. Pain itself started initially after a sequence of masked depression followed by dental or facial intervention in most atypical facial neuralgias, and by emotional stress in half of the patients with cluster headaches. Pain afterwards still hid and expressed a current underlying depression in both groups.

Cluster Headache↗
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[Causalgia: Report of a case (author's transl)].

The authors present the clinical course of a 48 year old workman who developed a progressively extending pain, after having wounded his left second finger with a metallic rod at work. This pain increased despite multiple surgical and medical treatment, including repeated amputations of the segments of the finger and the resection of the corresponding neurovegetative chain. When, two years later, the patient is seen by the authors, psychological analysis clearly shows an imbalanced evolution since chilhood: the pain is a focussing of various physical disconforts. A neuropsychological treatment is started in accordance with the noted background and the pain subsides within a few weaks. The result is stabilized in many months of treatment. From this clinical case, the authors stress the often dominant influence of the mental state in pain in general, and more specifically is the so called causalgic pain.

Causalgia↗
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[A case of regressive prosopagnosia (author's transl)].

After bilateral cranial trauma a 20 year-old male patient presented severe prosopagnosia which regressed after five months before disappearing completely. Referring to this exceptional case of regressive prosopagnosia the authors discuss the influence of rehabilitation, and review the literature concerning this disorder. They stress its association with other neuropsychological deficiencies connected with right hemispheric lesions, such as topagnosia and disturbance of visual perception.

Adult↗
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[The concept of postconcussional syndrome (author's transl)].

The author shows that postconcussional syndromes develop along three lines: somatic functional troubles, character and affective troubles, efficiency troubles. Most patients present such symptoms within six months after the trauma. In some patients, the syndrome remains for several reasons. The presence of objective sensory troubles, the weakness of socio-economic status and the lack of professional qualification, a psychiatric history and a history of emotional shock constitute precipitating factors. The necessity to determine, along these criteria, a high risk population to be followed psychologically after the hospitalisation is underlined.

Aggression↗
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[Early psychotherapy in posttraumatic syndromes. A case study].

The present study analyses one case of posttraumatic syndrome following an accident, which was apparently benign. The author studies neuropsychological investigations and improvement during psychotherapy, along with intellectual "revalidation". The emotional perturbation is accompanied by a dysfunction in mental efficiency, mostly memory. The improvement takes place both in the affective and intellectual areas. The possible hypothesis regarding the etiology of such perturbations are being reviewed. The author underlines the impact of the emotional trauma along with the subsequent perturbations in a patient already sensitised to previous accidents in her family.

Adult↗