Abstract
This chapter discusses blunt head injury. It has been observed that cerebral pathology resulting from blunt head injury entails a significant degree of generalized brain damage; focal cerebral lesions may also be evident after this type of injury. Patients of blunt head injuries suffer significant memory loss. In the case of pretraumatic amnesia, the issue of possible dissociation between immediately pretraumatic and more general retrograde memory loss remains unresolved. For cases of posttraumatic memory loss, retrospective estimates of duration of posttraumatic amnesia are subject to uncertainty and inconsistency. Residual memory deficits occurs succeeding blunt head injury, and the extent of these is in part related to the initial severity of injury and to the stage of recovery at which memory functioning is assessed. The absence of an absolute therapeutic procedure to help revitalize memory functions is a concern that needs to be addressed and is of great concern in the management of memory impairment as a result of blunt head injuries.
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