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“The contributions of Mrs. Violon and Mrs. Sichez are helpful and stimulating. I entirely agree with the point raised by Mrs. Sichez that post-traumatic personality changes do not come at random. As she correctly points out, head injured individuals form a particular sample of the population, in that they often have had more than one injury, they are young, male, and are often risk takers. Indeed, in our own study of the 5 year outcome after brain injury, 12 of our 42 patients (31%) had some involvement with the police for offences ranging from attempted murder (1 case) to public order disturbances (9 cases). In very many of these cases there had been similar troubles even before the injury.
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Brooks, N. (1988). Concluding Remarks to Preceding Contributions of N. Sichez-Auclair and A. Violon. In: Brihaye, J., Calliauw, L., Loew, F., van den Bergh, R. (eds) Personality and Neurosurgery. Acta Neurochirurgica, vol 44. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-9005-0_18
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