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Disturbances of Consciousness After Head Injuries

Observations on Boxers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

E. Guttmann  and
C. E. Winterstein
E. Guttmann
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Research, The Maudsley Hospital, London
C. E. Winterstein
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Research, The Maudsley Hospital, London
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Among the mental symptoms associated with head injury the psychiatrist rarely happens to see those immediately following the trauma; he is principally concerned with those mental sequelæ that follow recovery of consciousness (E. Mapother). Neither is the neurologist much interested in “cases of simple concussion in which the concussion is usually of brief duration and there is no indication that the brain has been organically injured” (J. P. Martin). Thus they are generally only observed by surgeons, who are usually more interested in other aspects than the psychological or neurophysiological one. Yet these mental symptoms cannot be disregarded if a general view of the disintegration or re-integration of the nervous function after the traumatic impairment is to be formed.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 84 , Issue 349 , March 1938 , pp. 347 - 351
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1938 

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