Open AccessGuest Editorial: Leveraging the patient support network in traumatic brain injury
Author(s) -
Michael Wininger,
Kara Gag
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of rehabilitation research and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1938-1352
pISSN - 0748-7711
DOI - 10.1682/jrrd.2012.12.0236
Subject(s) - traumatic brain injury , physical medicine and rehabilitation , psychology , medicine , neuroscience , psychiatry
TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY AND ASSOCIATED DISORDERS CAN OBSTRUCT THE PATIENT-CARE PATHWAYA recent single-topic issue of this journal (JRRD, 49(7)) gave forum to common—yet often overlooked—sequelae of traumatic brain injury (TBI): sensory and communication dysfunction. The issue gave excellent context not only for the diffuse and idiosyncratic nature of these deficits but also for their prevalence. Perhaps the most compelling aspect of sensory and communication disorders following TBI is that impairment of these compartments frequently affects perception and cognition as well. This phenomenology was addressed directly in some of the articles [1–3] and tacitly in others