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High incidence of depression seen in traumatic brain injury patientsRSS Feed
Almost one-third of traumatic brain injury sufferers will develop depression following the event, it has been revealed.
Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigated a number of existing studies which focused on individuals who had experienced a fall, traffic accident, assault or sports injury.
According to the authors, the findings are particularly important due to a lack of research looking at whether antidepressants can be safely and effectively used on brain injury patients.
Co-author Dr Oscar Guillamondegui said: "Any patient who has a traumatic brain injury is at a real risk for developing depression, short and long term.
"It doesn't matter where on the timeline that you check the patient population - six months, 12 months, two years, five years - the prevalence is always around 30 per cent across the board."
Meanwhile, researchers at the University of Rochester have found that anti-depressant medication could improve memory in people who have suffered a brain injury.
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