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Longitudinal Course of Mood Disorders Following Traumatic Brain Injury
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2002;59:23-24.
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THIS STUDY raises the interesting but infrequently examined question
about the longitudinal course of mood disorders associated with brain injury.
The authors found that the lifetime prevalence of major depression in men
who had suffered a head injury during the World War II was 18.5% vs 13.4%
for a comparable group without head injury.
One might question the ability of veterans to accurately remember prior
episodes of depressive disorder. For example, in one of our longitudinal studies
of patients with stroke, we tried to assess the longitudinal course of depressive
disorder throughout 10 years following the onset of stroke. Since we had accurate
prospective examinations of depressive disorders during the first 2 years
following stroke, we were able to assess patients and close relatives' ability
to accurately recall their depressive disorder. Based on their no better than
chance recollection of depression during the time that we had clear documentation,
we . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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