TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Post concussion syndrome: The attraction of the psychological by the organic
JO  - Medical hypotheses
A1  - Sandy Macleod, A. D.
SP  - 1033
EP  - 1035
VL  - 74
IS  - 6
N2  - Post concussion symptoms following mild traumatic brain injury are a difficult clinical state to conceptualise. The constellation of symptoms include those with an organic signature (and presumed organic aetiology), and those with overt psychological features. A seemingly trivial head injury may result in enduring symptoms. The validity of post concussion syndrome (PCS) has been the focus of much medico-legal debate, as has its cause. Whether PCS is 'neurogenic' or 'psychogenic' in aetiology remains contestable. Babinski, in 1918, hypothesised that an organic factor initiated the symptoms of the disorder now known as PCS, and that this acted as a 'bait', or attractor, for pre-existing and post-injury psychological influences. This hypothesis, which has been neither proven nor disproven over the subsequent nearly one hundred years, deserves reconsideration for it is an appealing model of PCS.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0306-9877
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2010.01.002
ID  - ref1
ER  -