PSYC31H3 Chapter 7: PSYC31 - Ch. 7 (Part 1)
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It is not necessary to ask every candidate for neuropsychological assessment for family history going back a generation or two, although family history is important when the diagnostic possibilities include a hereditary disorder. Severity classifications and outcome prediction: neuropsychological assessment is mostly concerned with patients between these two extremes, 1. Impacts so mild as to leave no behavioural traces, resulting in no lasting structural injury to the brain and producing only the briefest of transient and temporary changes in neurological function: 2. 3: while complaints of physical symptoms decreased, more emotion-related symptoms (temper, irritability, anxiety) were documented at a year post injury. Diagnostic criteria for mild tbi by american congress of rehabilitation medicine: A traumatically induced physiological disruption of brain function, as manifested by at least one of the following: Any loss of memory for events immediately before or after the accident.
