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Phineas Re-enGage: Long-Term Psychiatric Follow-Up of Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury

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The authors have presented a case of a 14-year-old male who suffered a severe traumatic brain injury. His narrative is derived from follow-up over an interval from 1-week postinjury through 24-year postinjury by virtue of participation in a prospective longitudinal follow-up study. This chapter summarizes his postinjury course from age 14 to 22 years previously published and extends the description of his course to 38 years of age. In contrast to the famous case of Phineas Gage who came to represent the classical poor outcome after traumatic brain injury, we have named him Phineas Re-enGage to emphasize his sustained positive quality of life changes in multiple domains of function that occurred after 11 years of severe postinjury psychiatric, socio-emotional, and occupational dysfunction. The chapter discusses biopsychosocial aspects of outcome of pediatric traumatic brain injury.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA

    Jeffrey E. Max

  2. Neuropsychiatric Research, Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego, CA, USA

    Jeffrey E. Max

  3. Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA

    Erin D. Bigler & Tracy Abildskov

  4. Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA

    John R. Hesselink

  5. Department of Neurology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Elisabeth A. Wilde

  6. Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Owen Wade

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Max, J.E., Bigler, E.D., Hesselink, J.R., Wilde, E.A., Abildskov, T., Wade, O. (2019). Phineas Re-enGage: Long-Term Psychiatric Follow-Up of Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury. In: Hauptman, A., Salpekar, J. (eds) Pediatric Neuropsychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94998-7_2

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