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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
Volume 23, Issue 5, Pages 671-691Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1076/jcen.23.5.671.1247
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This is the first systematic investigation of the very long-term effects of severe closed head injury (CFH) on objective measures of memory, and the first to employ both a normal control group and an 'other injury' control group consisting of spinal cord injury (SCI) patients. The CM group displayed significantly poorer performance on every memory measure, and the effect sizes were large. This impairment in episodic memory is neither due to pre-injury nor post-injury differences between CHI and normal control subjects because the same differences were found when the CHI group was compared to a group of SCI patients. The findings demonstrate severe impairment in learning and retention many years after sustaining a severe CHI, which is likely in part due to the bilateral hippocampal damage shown in neuropathological studies. This lifelong memory impairment needs to be addressed by community service programs.
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