Sections
Psychotic Disorders: Introduction | Relation of TBI to Subsequent Psychosis | Diagnosis | Populations at Risk | Neuroanatomical Effects of TBI and Implications for
Psychosis Pathophysiology | Clinical Evaluation | Treatment | Conclusion | Key Clinical Points | Recommended Readings | References
Excerpt
An association between traumatic brain injury (TBI)
and the subsequent development of psychopathology, including psychosis,
has been suggested since the nineteenth century. Early in the twentieth
century, Emil Kraepelin (1919) hypothesized that brain
injuries in childhood might either cause or release predisposition
to schizophrenia, implicating a causative role for TBI in psychotic
illness.