Postconcussion symptoms after head trauma: Interpretation and treatment

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 1986, Pages 728-732

  Long, Charles J ^a   Novack, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ANXIETY; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DEPRESSION; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; JURISPRUDENCE; MENTAL STRESS; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; TIME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANXIETY; BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; JURISPRUDENCE; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; PROGNOSIS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0022737076     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: 15418243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-198606000-00020     Document Type: Article

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