Textbook of Traumatic Brain Injury - part 4 pdf

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... neuropsychia-tric evaluation and treatment of the patient with trau-matic brain injury (TBI).Role of the NeuropsychologistIn the traumatically brain- injured population, the neu-ropsychologist most often ... independent of injury severity. Ellenberg et al. (1996) found that theproportion of 1 6- or 25-year-olds still in PTA was lowerthan that of 40 -year-olds (Cox proportional hazards sur-vival curves) ... by a failure of amnestic pro-cesses” (Mandleberg 1975). Thus, PTA overlaps with 146 TEXTBOOK OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY 89.2% specificity for mild TBI versus no injury, and alsooffers a positive...

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