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The literature dealing with the immediate and long term cognitive and behavioral consequences after brain injury is extensive. Books and articles from the 1970s and 80s [1–4], are repeatedly quoted and new research performed with updated methods. In the introduction to several of these publications it is stated that the awareness of numerous and varied neurobehavioral sequelae is increasing, and that they exert the largest influence on the injured individual’s functioning and ability to reintegrate into community: the term “neurobehavioral disability” has grown in use to denote this, often permanent, complex, subtle, yet pervasive constellation of cognitive-behavior changes. The elements the term comprises are: executive dysfunction, deficits of attention, diminished insight, poor social judgment, labile mood, problems of impulse control, as well as a range of personality changes which, when combined with specific cognitive problems and pre-morbid personality characteristics, lead to a serious social handicap, undermining the person’s capacity for independent social behavior.
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Christensen, AL. (2006). Neurobehavioral Sequelae in Neurotraumatology. In: Kanno, T., Kato, Y. (eds) Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery and Multidisciplinary Neurotraumatology. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/4-431-28576-8_46
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