POST-CONCUSSION SYNDROME—A CRITIQUE
Authors: D. Denny-Brown
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1943)

Article1 September 1943POST-CONCUSSION SYNDROME—A CRITIQUED. DENNY-BROWN, M.B., F.R.C.P.D. DENNY-BROWN, M.B., F.R.C.P.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-19-3-427 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThough head injuries are usually considered to be the province of the surgeon, the physician, as Richard Bright1 remarked over a century ago, is so commonly called upon to alleviate their after-effects and has so often to take them into account in relation to general disease, that it behooves him to interest himself in their mechanism.Traumatic disorder of the nervous system is in general of a kind that is at its worst immediately following the injury, and thenceforth lessens in severity as reparation is made. This is true of the paralysis due to damage to the cerebral cortex, to...Bibliography1. BRIGHT R: Reports of medical cases, 1831, Longman, London, vol. ii, part 1. Google Scholar2. MALONE JY: Head injuries: a new treatment for post-concussional headaches and dizziness: preliminary report, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1942, cxix, 861-863. CrossrefGoogle Scholar3. HUTCHINSON J: Illustrations of clinical surgery, 1877, J. A. Churchill, London, vol. 1. CrossrefGoogle Scholar4. SYMONDS CP: The effects of injury upon the brain, Lancet, 1932, i, 820. CrossrefGoogle Scholar5. SYMONDS CP: Concussion and contusion of the brain and their sequelae. Chapter 4 in BROCK'S Injuries of the skull, brain and spinal cord: neuro-psychiatric, surgical and medico-legal aspects, 1940, William Wood and Company, Baltimore. CrossrefGoogle Scholar6. SYMONDS CP: Differential diagnosis and treatment of post-contusional states, Proc. Roy. Soc. Med., 1942, xxxv, 601-607 (Section of Neurology pp. 25-31). Google Scholar7. SYMONDSRUSSELL CPWR: Accidental head injuries: prognosis in service patients, Lancet, 1943, i, 7-10. CrossrefGoogle Scholar8. STRAUSSSAVITSKY IN: Head injury: neurologic and psychiatric aspects, Arch. Neurol. and Psychiat., 1934, xxxi, 893-955. CrossrefGoogle Scholar9. SCHILDER P: Neuroses following head and brain injuries. Chapter 12 in BROCK'S Injuries of the skull, brain and spinal cord: neuro-psychiatric, surgical and medico-legal aspects, 1940, William Wood and Company, Baltimore. CrossrefGoogle Scholar10. RUSSELL WR: Cerebral involvement in head injury: study based on examination of 200 cases, Brain, 1932, lv, 549-603. CrossrefGoogle Scholar11. SCHALLER WF: After effects of head injury: Post-traumatic concussion state (concussion, traumatic encephalography) and post-traumatic psychoneurotic state (psychoneurosis, hysteria): Study in differential diagnosis, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1939, cxiii, 1779-1785. Google Scholar12. PENFIELDNORCROSS WNC: Subdural traction and post-traumatic headache: study of pathology and therapeusis, Arch. Neurol. and Psychiat., 1936, xxxvi, 75-94. CrossrefGoogle Scholar13. RUSSEL C, quoted by PENFIELD, W.: Clinical notes from a trip to Great Britain, Arch. Neurol. and Psychiat., 1942, xlvii, 1030-1036. Google Scholar14. LEMEREBARNACLE FCH: Encephalography: a review of eight hundred encephalograms, with special reference to subdural air, Arch. Neurol. and Psychiat., 1936, xxxv, 990-1001. CrossrefGoogle Scholar15. DENNY-BROWN D: The sequelae of war head injuries, New England Jr. Med., 1942, ccxxvii, 771-780 and 813-821. CrossrefGoogle Scholar16. PENFIELD W: Chronic meningeal (post-traumatic) headache and its specific treatment by lumbar air insufflation, Surg., Gynec., and Obst., 1927, xlv, 747. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Boston, Massachusetts*Read before the New England Regional Meeting of the American College of Physicians in Boston, Massachusetts, February 5, 1943.From the Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School and the Neurological Unit, Boston City Hospital. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byAURAL VERTIGOTwenty-year follow-up of the prevailing opinion on the posttraumatic or postconcussional syndromePediatric head injuries caused by traffic accidentsTHE PSYCHIATRIC SEQUELÆ OF HEAD INJURIESTREATMENT OF THE POSTCOMMOTIONAL CEREBRAL SYNDROME A. M. SILFVERSKIÖLDMild head injury (concussion)Modern Considerations of the Man with Brain InjuryDepressed fractures of the Skull their Surgery, Sequelae and Disability 1 September 1943Volume 19, Issue 3Page: 427-432KeywordsHead injuryNervous systemNeurologyParalysisSurgeons Issue Published: 1 September 1943 PDF downloadLoading ...