Assessment of recovery from serious head injury.
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Assessment of recovery from serious head injury.
A procedure for serial assessment of neuropsychological recovery after serious head injury was designed. The assessment procedure consists of four segments, each appropriate for different phases of the recovery process. Recovery can be traced from early in the period of post-traumatic amnesia until it reaches an asymptote. The course of recovery of several patients has been observed. The proced...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1978
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.41.11.1036