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Brain Damage and Personality Change after Subarachnoid Haemorrhage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

P. B. Storey*
Affiliation:
St. George's Hospital, S.W.17 and Springfield Hospital, S.W.17

Extract

This paper reports on the personality changes found in 261 patients after proven subarachnoid haemorrhage, and in particular on the association between these changes and the site and severity of damage to the brain. Psychiatric symptoms and details of intellectual impairment are not considered but will be reported elsewhere.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1970 

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