[Dynamics of psychopathologic and neurologic syndrome in severe trauma to the skull and brain]

A dynamical clinical psychopathologic and neurologic study of disturbed functions of the nervous system following closed trauma of the skull and brain was conducted on 52 patients. The following three periods could be distinguished: the immediate result of the injury (1 to 2 weeks), recovery (2 weeks to 2 months), and outcome (2 to 3 years after the injury). The clinical forms of the course of psychopathologic and neurologic syndromes in each period were determined.