2017, Number 2
Caracterización neuropsicológica de pacientes con trauma craneoencefálico frontal leve y moderado
Language: Spanish
References: 24
Page: 4-9
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: frontal cranioencephalic injuries are the leading cause of death and disability in patients under 45 years of age; the neuropsychological ones, for which a particular evaluation is needed, are their most frequent sequels. Objective: to describe the neuropsychological characteristics of 42 patients with slight and moderate frontal head trauma. Method: a descriptive cross-sectional epidemiological study was carried out with a sample of 42 patients with slight and moderate frontal cranioencephalic trauma who were admitted to “Arnaldo Milián Castro” Neurosurgery Room between January and December 2015. Results: high frequency of alterations of attention, as well as of memory (both constitute a basic process for the adaptation of the human being to the world that surrounds him); the deterioration of memory by different mechanisms causes important functional losses, particularly anterograde amnesia, and difficulty to control of thought and slowing processes, as well as alterations to regulate the emotional response and, in all cases, it will be found some level of alteration of language, associated with negative emotional states. Conclusions: in the studied variables, the presence of different levels of alteration in the attention, in memory, in thinking and in language and of negative emotional states combined in the same patient became them in relevant elements to be present in the evaluation of patients.REFERENCES
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