Impaired awareness of deficits in individuals with neuropsychiatric symptoms after acquired brain injury: associations with treatment motivation and depressive symptoms.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate impaired awareness of deficits in relation to treatment motivation and depressive symptoms in patients with neuropsychiatric symptoms after acquired brain injury.

Method: The study had a Cross-sectional design with 93 outpatient brain injury patients with neuropsychiatric symptoms in the chronic phase after injury. Awareness was measured by the discrepancy in answers between patients and significant others and/or clinicians.

Aggressive behaviour of inpatients with acquired brain injury.

Objective: To study the prevalence, nature and determinants of aggression among inpatients with acquired brain injury.

Background: Patients with acquired brain injury often have difficulty in controlling their aggressive impulses.

Design: A prospective observational study design.