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Training on the Regional Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit: six months registrar experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

J. Lewin
J. Lewin*
Affiliation:
Regional Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit, St Albans, Hertfordshire AL2 1BR (now Research Registrar, Department of Psychiatry, Watford General Hospital, Watford WD1 8HB)
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There is an increasingly large population of those who are chronically disabled as the result of brain injury (Jennett & Macmillan, 1981). These injuries can be the result of trauma, infections, tumours, hypoglycemia, anoxia or other damaging conditions. The large majority of rehabilitation units cater for physical problems only. However, it has been recognised that patients with brain injury often develop behavioural disorders during the early recovery phase and in a few cases these persist (Eames & Wood, 1989).

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , March 1991 , pp. 152 - 153
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991

References

Eames, P. & Wood, R. Ll. (1989) The structure and content of a head injury rehabilitation service. In Models of Brain Injury Rehabilitation (eds Wood, R. Ll. and Eames, P.), pp. 31–47. London: Chapman & Hall.Google Scholar
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