Citation

Trudeau DL, Anderson J, Hansen LM, Shagalov DN, Schmoller J, Nugent S, Barton S. J. Neuropsychiatry Clin. Neurosci. 1998; 10(3): 308-313.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Minneapolis Veterans' Affairs Medical Center, MN 55417, USA. trude003@maroon.tc.umn.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, American Neuropsychiatric Association, Publisher American Psychiatric Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9706538

Abstract

Veterans with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder were evaluated for a history of blast concussion, controlling for confounding conditions. Electroencephalograms were analyzed by discriminant function for traumatic brain injury. A difference was found in discriminant scores between veterans with and without blast concussion. More members of the blast group had attentional symptoms and attentional dysfunction. Combat veterans with a remote history of blast injury have persistent electroencephalographic features of traumatic brain injury as well as attentional problems. The authors hypothesize that these constitute a type of chronic postconcussive syndrome that has cognitive and mood symptoms overlapping those of posttraumatic stress disorder.

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