Alexithymia: The story of a survivor of childhood traumatic brain injury

Brain Injury

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1199-1205

  Ho, Nerissa S P ^a   Lee, Tatia M C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; Occipital lobe; Social cognition; TBI; Traumatic brain injuries; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CHILDHOOD INJURY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRUSTRATION; GUILT; HEAD INJURY; HEMIANOPIA; HORSEBACK RIDING; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; MARLOWE-CROWNE SOCIAL DESIRABILITY SCALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OPEN FRACTURE; SKILL; SKULL FRACTURE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; STROOP TEST; SURVIVOR; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VISUAL CORTEX; WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AGE OF ONSET; BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SURVIVORS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84881473049     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02699052.2013.804198     Document Type: Article

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