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Symptoms following mild head injury: Expectation as aetiology

Författare

  • W. Mittenberg
  • D.V. DiGiulio
  • S. Perrin
  • A.E. Bass

Summary, in English

An affective, somatic, and memory checklist of symptoms was administered to subjects who had no personal experience or knowledge of head injury. Subjects indicated their current experiences of symptoms, then imagined having sustained a mild head injury in a motor vehicle accident, and endorsed symptoms they expected to experience six months after the injury. The checklist of symptoms was also administered to a group of patients with head injuries for comparison. Imaginary concussion reliably showed expectations in controls of a coherent cluster of symptoms virtually identical to the postconcussion syndrome reported by patients with head trauma. Patients consistently underestimated the premorbid prevalence of these symptoms compared with the base rate in controls. Symptom expectations appear to share as much variance with postconcussion syndrome as head injury itself. An aetiological role is suggested.

Publiceringsår

1992-11-10

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

200-204

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volym

55

Issue

3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

BMJ Publishing Group

Ämne

  • Neurology

Nyckelord

  • article
  • concussion
  • controlled study
  • etiology
  • expectation
  • experience
  • follow up
  • head injury
  • human
  • major clinical study
  • memory
  • priority journal
  • questionnaire
  • symptom
  • traffic accident

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1468-330X