[ARTICLE] Prevalence and Predictors of Personality change after Severe Brain Injury

…Personality change was observed in the majority of patients with severe brain injury. Change in Neuroticism was associated with frontal and temporal lesions. Generally, personality change was not associated with more distress and lower HRQoL in SOs… http://www.archives-pmr.org/article/S0003-9993(14)01014-4/abstract?rss=yes

List of abbreviations:

HRQoL (Health-Related Quality Of Life),

NEO-FFI (NEO Five Factor Inventory),

NEO-PI-R (NEO- Personality Inventory Revised),

NTBI (Non-traumatic Brain Injury),

SCL-90-R (Symptom Checklist-90-Revised),

SF-36 (Short Form- 36),

SO(Significant Other),

TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury)