Donéstevez MARA, Cañizares LO, Alba PLC, Alegret RM

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: frontal craneoencephalic traumatism is the leading cause of death and disability in patients under 50 years of age; the dimensional, dynamic and dialectic relationships between Neurosurgery and Psychology demonstrate the scientific value of considering integrally to human being as a biopsychosocial unit. Objective: to identify associations among the neurological characteristics of light and moderate frontal craneoencephalic trauma and the psychological state. Methods: a descriptive cross-sectional epidemiological clinical study was carried out with a sample of 42 patients of a total of 150 with light and moderate frontal craneoencephalic trauma who were attended at the Neurosurgery Service of “Arnaldo Milán Castro” Hospital of the Province of Villa Clara during the period between January 2011 and December 2015. Results: the joint analysis of the neurological and psychological variables in the studied sample showed the association between them and frontal lobe lesions with particularities according to the affectation of consciousness, the affected hemisphere and the location of the lesion. Conclusions: through the variables studied, it was confirmed the presence of different levels of psychological and neurological alterations combined in the same patient; which makes them in relevant elements to keep in mind in the neuropsychological evaluation of patients in their diagnosis and in the orientation of their integral rehabilitation.