Citation

Jae KL, Yenn PH. J. Traffic Med. 1997; 25(3-4): 97-102.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, International Association for Accident and Traffic Medicine)

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Abstract

Objective: The main purpose of this paper is to examine the differences of neuropsychiatric symptoms of brain-injured patients caused by traffic accidents between patients with CNS lesion and without CNS lesion in MRI findings. Methods: We compared the degree of the psychiatric symptoms, personality trends, impulsivity, and intellectual functioning between the two groups. The instruments used for examination are as follows: Symptom Checklist 90-R(SCL-90-R), MMPI, Barratt Impulsivity Scale, and Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale. Results: The non-lesion group tended to somatize their symptoms more than the lesion group and showed more hysterical personality trait than the lesion group. On the other hand, the lesion group showed more schizophrenic and socially introverted personality traits and lower Intelligence Quotient than the non-lesion group. Conclusions: More exaggerated compensation problem related to traffic accident in the non- lesion group was described as a possible causes of elevation of somatization symptom in SCL-90-R and hysteria profile in MMPI, and the effect of organic pathology in the lesion group was described as a cause of lower Intelligence Quotient and elevation of schizophrenia and social introversion profiles in MMPI.