Penetrating head injury in young adulthood exacerbates cognitive decline in later years
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Penetrating head injury in young adulthood exacerbates cognitive decline in later years.
Few investigators have studied whether the behavioral effects of brain insult in adulthood are stable after the period of maximum recovery. We addressed this issue in a 30-year longitudinal study of 84 veterans of World War II, 57 with penetrating head injury (HI) and 27 with peripheral nerve injury (PNI), matched with respect to age, premorbid intelligence, and premorbid education. Each subjec...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Neuroscience
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0270-6474,1529-2401
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.09-11-03876.1989