Gyrus Group

  Post-traumatic amnesia is a transient state following a traumatic brain injury, where brain function is temporarily altered, disrupting cognitive and behavioural functioning (Parker et al., 2022). The accurate diagnosis of post-traumatic amnesia is critical for understanding the appropriate clinical management and prognosis of the patient following a traumatic brain injury. However, in many cases these impairments are not accurately diagnosed, negatively impacting clinical care as well as medicolegal claims. Post-traumatic amnesia was first described in 1930s by British neurologists Ritchie Russell and Charles Symonds (Russel, 1932; Symonds, 1937). Post-traumatic amnesia refers to the time between the onset of a traumatic brain injury and the time that patients can encode and retrieve new memories. It was noted that patients typically exhibit a range of cognitive, behavioural and perceptual deficits, as well as considerable variation in their clinical presentations. Russell ...