Alasdair Timothy Llewelyn Rathbone, Surejini Tharmaradinam, Shucui Jiang, Michel P Rathbone, Dinesh A Kumbhare
Post-concussion syndrome is an aggregate of symptoms that commonly present together after head injury. These symptoms, depending on definition, include headaches, dizziness, neuropsychiatric symptoms, and cognitive impairment. However, these symptoms are common, occurring frequently in non-head injured controls, leading some to question the existence of post-concussion syndrome as a unique syndrome. Therefore, some have attempted to explain post-concussion symptoms as post-traumatic stress disorder, as they share many similar symptoms and post-traumatic stress disorder does not require head injury...
May 2015: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity