In all industrialized countries, closed head injuries are
responsible for vast numbers of hospital admissions and days of
work lost. For instance, about 120,000 patients are admitted to
hospital in the United Kingdom each year with a diagnosis that
reflects closed head injury. Such injuries are a major cause of
deaths following accidents, especially those that involve children
and young people, and they are also a major cause of handicap and
morbidity among the survivors. This clinical condition is
intrinsically a neurological one, but its proper evaluation demands
an understanding of the associated psychology and psychopathology.
At the same time, a major neurological condition with such a high
level of incidence ought to be extremely informative about the
functioning of the human brain and hence provide a major focus for
neuropsychological investigation.; In this book, the author seeks
to integrate these two different perspectives by reviewing the
clinical and neuropsychological aspects of closed head injury in a
manner that is equally intelligible to researchers interested in
the effects of brain damage upon human behaviour and to
practitioners who are responsible for the assessm
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