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Traumatic brain injuries often result in frontal lobe damage, in addition to diffuse damage, from the impact of the frontal lobes against the protruding frontal bones (Levin, Benton, & Grossman, 1982). Frontal lobe damage produces behavioral, emotional, and cognitive problems, especially impaired executive functioning (Lezak, 1983; Sohlberg & Mateer, 1989). Memory and attentional deficits are also very common long-term sequelae after traumatic brain injuries due to diffuse brain damage that affects both the medial temporal lobe structures and the brain stem. Although impairments in executive functions (e.g., planning, self-monitoring, self-correction) largely determine the extent of psychosocial and vocational recovery following head injury, rehabilitation efforts have been minimal (Sohlberg & Mateer, 1989).
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Zec, R.F., Parks, R.W., Gambach, J., Vicari, S. (1992). The Executive Board System. In: Long, C.J., Ross, L.K. (eds) Handbook of Head Trauma. Critical Issues in Neuropsychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0706-6_13
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