Treatment challenges with profound behaviour disturbance after traumatic brain injury: A case report

Brain Injury

Volumn 27, Issue 7-8, 2013, Pages 957-961

  Dvorkin, Assaf Y ^a,b   Pacini, Sonia ^a   Hsu, Nancy ^a   Larson, Eric B ^a,b  

^a REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agitation; Attention; Brain injury; Rehabilitation; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BROMOCRIPTINE;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; AGITATION; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIECTOMY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GAZE; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEMORY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RESTLESSNESS; ROBOTICS; SKULL FRACTURE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84879406349     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02699052.2013.793399     Document Type: Article

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