Post-traumatic brain injury agitation and disinhibition after a motor vehicle accident: A difficult choice for patient, carer and primary team

• Main Authors: Mohd Amiruddin Mohd Kassim, Pang, Nicholas Tze Ping, Ng, Jun N.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Edizioni Minerva Medica 2021
• Subjects: RC435-571 Psychiatry
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/32599/1/Post-traumatic%20brain%20injury%20agitation%20and%20disinhibition%20after%20a%20motor%20vehicle%20accident_%20A%20difficult%20choice%20for%20patient%2C%20carer%20and%20primary%20team%20_ABSTRACT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/32599/; https://www.minervamedica.it/en/journals/minerva-psychiatry/article.php?cod=R17Y2021N01A0046; https://doi.org/10.23736/S2724-6612.20.02097-X

A young man became increasingly aggressive and irritable following an acute frontoparietal hemorrhage and craniectomy. Subsequently he developed sexual disinhibition 4 days post injury. There were no other psychotic, mood or neurotic symptoms and there were no features of delirium. There was no hist...