Abstract
Mnesic performances one year after moderate traumatic brain injury. Mnesic alterations have been largely studied in mild and severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), but there are few data about patients with moderate TBI. Our objective is to study the existence of mnesic alterations in moderate TBI after one year in comparasion with performance of normal adult subjects. Sample: 28 adult subjects with moderate TBI and 28 normal subjects with similar demographical characteristics. Material: Digit span; Rey's Audio-verbal Learning Test; Babcock story; Benton's Visual retention Test; and Re'y Complex figure. Statistical analyses: repeated measures Anova. One year after traumatic injury, patients dot not attain normal patters in their performances in logical, verbal memory, at 60%; at 57% in learning; and 86% in audio-verbal retention capacity. Visuocontractive memory and visuospatial memory are within the limits of normality, at 64% and 75% respectively.
