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The history of psychiatric illness and other mental health risk factors are significantly predictive of psychiatric symptoms after traumatic brain injury, research has shown.

A study published in the Journal of Neurotrauma found that psychiatric symptoms during the acute post-injury period and a concurrent limb injury were two other strong predictors of psychiatric illness one year after traumatic brain injury.

An association was also revealed between unemployment, pain and poor quality of life and psychiatric symptoms, according to researchers at Epworth Hospital and Monash University in Australia.

In other news, young adult binge drinkers may be subjecting themselves to brain injury, new research has shown.

Scientists carried out high-resolution brain scans on young adult weekend binge drinkers and found that consuming alcohol in this way was associated with cortical-thinning of the pre-frontal cortex.

According to the findings, presented at the 34th annual meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism in Atlanta, this could affect the person's ability to pay attention, make decision, plan, control impulses and process emotions.

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