Volume 26, Issue 121, March 2022

Depression and traumatic brain injury in Al Karaj

Ali Hassan A Ali^1,2♦, Abdulaziz M M Alshamrani³, Naif A H Albulayhid³, Fahd M Alanazi³, Mohammed Mazroua Almazroua³, Turky N I Alhuwail³, Waleed A H Aldholmi³, Salman F A Alandas³, Ali Mohammed Alotaifi³

¹Anatomy Department, College of Medicine, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Alkharj 11942, KSA
²Anatomy Department, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
³College of Medicine, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, KSA

^♦Corresponding author
Anatomy Department, College of Medicine, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Alkharj 11942, KSA Anatomy Department, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

ABSTRACT

Depression is repeated sequel among patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The purpose of our research is to identify the prevalence of depression after TBI. It is a prospective, study carried out in the first two year after brain trauma occurred. In this study 213 patients with head trauma. All of them, MRI of the brain was done within 30 days after accident. Radiological, demographic, clinical, and data were gathered during hospitalization. Psychiatric and neurocognitive assessment were done two years after that time. In patients with lesions of the cerebral hemisphere and the corpus callosum, major depressive disorder is regularly recorded. Our research focuses attention on the importance of psychosocial factors as foretellers of those who will report severe depression after injury. Our data show a positive relationship between brain injury and depression.

Keywords: Brain injury, Depression, Psychiatric outcome, MRI, Al Karaj

Medical Science, 2022, 26, ms93e2122

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v26i121/ms93e2122

Published: 08 March 2022