Bomb blast, mild traumatic brain injury and psychiatric morbidity: A review

Injury

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 437-443

  Rosenfeld, Jeffrey V ^a,b   Ford, Nick L ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blast injury; Post traumatic Stress Disorder; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; AIR EMBOLISM; BLAST INJURY; BOMB; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECELERATION; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL DISEASE; MILITARY MEDICINE; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTCONCUSSION SYNDROME; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKULL FRACTURE; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; SOLDIER; TERRORISM; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WAR; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPLICATION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE MODEL; EMBOLISM, AIR; FEMALE; MALE; MOTION; PATHOLOGY; POST-CONCUSSION SYNDROME; PSYCHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RAT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; ANIMALS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BLAST INJURIES; BOMBS; BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EMBOLISM, AIR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MOTION; POST-CONCUSSION SYNDROME; RATS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKULL FRACTURES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; IRAQ WAR, 2003-2011;

EID: 77950020529     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2009.11.018     Document Type: Review

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