Abstract
Depression is repeated sequel among patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The purpose of our research is to identify the prevalence of depression after TBI. It is a prospective, study carried out in the first two year after brain trauma occurred. In this study 213 patients with head trauma. All of them, MRI of the brain was done within 30 days after accident. Radiological, demographic, clinical, and data were gathered during hospitalization. Psychiatric and neurocognitive assessment were done two years after that time. In patients with lesions of the cerebral hemisphere and the corpus callosum, major depressive disorder is regularly recorded. Our research focuses attention on the importance of psychosocial factors as foretellers of those who will report severe depression after injury. Our data show a positive relationship between brain injury and depression.