Aftereffects of brain injuries in war their evaluation and treatment : the application of psychologic methods in the clinic / Kurt Goldstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldstein, Kurt, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brain damage--Patients--Rehabilitation.

Brain damage.

Brain damage--Complications.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (24 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Aftereffects of brain injuries in war

Aftereffects of brain injuries in war their evaluation and treatment

Place of Publication:

New York : Grune & Stratton, 1942.

Summary:

Report is made of a systematic detailed study of 2,000 patients suffering from skull and brain injuries of gunshot origin. Some of the patients were seen within a few days of the injury, a much larger number within a few weeks, and a few a year or two later. 100 were kept under observation continuously for 10 years, and a larger number were seen less frequently, but detailed records were kept on them for 10 years. The book is divided into two sections: symptomatology, and treatment. The first chapter deals with the general symptoms, initial problems, and disturbances of the vasomotor system and of various functions. The second chapter, neurologic symptoms, describes lesions of the motor, sensory, and the visual areas and of the frontal lobes, cerebellum, and vestibular apparatus. Chapter 3 describes early and persistent mental symptoms. Chapter 4 covers the origin and nature of symptoms, and the 5th chapter describes in detail the various psychological laboratory examinations, their purposes, the tests used, and methods of examination of individual defects. Chapter 6 takes up problems of general physical and neurologic therapy and the treatment of specific defects especially aphasia, agnosia, and speech defects. The final chapter deals with the problems of social adjustment, the improvement of working capacity, the choice of future vocations, the evaluation of usefulness for military service and civilian life, compensation problems, and the problem of social care. 197-item bibliography. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved).

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