ABSTRACT

The first seven chapters of this text have formed the bases upon which the database is collected for a neurobehavioral analysis following a neuropsychiatric examination of a traumatically braininjured patient. Table 8.1 outlines a suggested schema whereby the examiner performing a neuropsychiatric assessment can systematically collect data for analysis to determine and establish the neuropsychiatric deficits in a patient following traumatic brain injury (TBI) and to further assist in the treatment planning necessary for addressing the cognitive and behavioral issues resulting from trauma to the brain. By no means is this approach the only methodology whereby a proper neuropsychiatric assessment of a brain-injured person can be completed. However, it is empirically tested by more than 20 years of systematic assessment of injured persons, and it represents a database of more than 2500 traumatically brain-injured people.