Cognitive recovery after severe head injury. 1. Serial testing on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale.

Disability after severe head injury: observations on the use of the Glasgow Outcome Scale.

“…accord with several psychological studies of severe head injury. [20][21][22][23][24][25][26] Although some neurophysical deficit (including epilepsy) occurred in three-quarters of the patients, mental handicap was judged by the examining neurologist to be more significant than physical sequelae in contributing to the overall disability in over half the cases; physical features were more significant in less than 30 % (table 8). This dominance The Glasgow Outcome Scale, either in its original form, or in the expanded version described here, allows the overall social outcome of most patients to be assessed reliably on the basis of a structured interview which concentrates on social and personal functioning, without the need for detailed neurological and psychological evaluation.…”

Health-related quality of life after mild, moderate and severe traumatic brain injury: Patterns and predictors of suboptimal functioning during the first year after injury

“…TBI can cause assorted impairments and disabilities in functional, physical, emotional, cognitive, and social domains which drastically reduce health-related quality of life (HRQL) [1,2]. Because of major improvements in trauma care, the number of survivors of severe TBI has rapidly grown [3]. However, the disability due to TBI has not appreciably reduced [4].…”

Comparison of Cognitive Performances During a Placebo Period and an Atypical Antipsychotic Treatment Period in Schizophrenia: Critical Examination of Confounds

“…Clearly, global insults in brain function impair one's ability to perform in many domains of cognitive testing, and this manner of impairment can be reversed with clinical improvement in general brain function (Knights et al, 1991;Mandleberg and Brooks, 1975;Mayes et al, 1989;White et al, 1986). This raises the question of whether the improvements we observed represent a true cognitive enhancement per se or simply restoration of more effective utilization of cognitive resources that pre-existed the symptomatic state of psychosis and that were unavailable or dysfunctional during the more clinically disturbed state.…”