The neuropsychiatric sequelae of traumatic brain injury are effects on complex aspect
of cognition, emotion and behavior. They include problems with attention and arousal,
concentration, executive function, intellectual changes, memory inpairments, personality
changes, affective disorders, anxiety disorders, psychosis, apathy, aggression, and
irritability. There are many useful therapeutic approaches available for people who have
been brain injuries. Although a multifactioral, multidisciplinary, collaborative approach to
treatment is proposed, for purposes of exposition the author have divided treatment into
psychopharmacological, cognitive, behavioral, psychological, and social interventions.
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