Comorbidity of mental disorders and substance use: a brief guide for the primary care clinician
12.2 Do mental disorders predispose individuals to brain injury?
Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Introduction
- Comorbidity of mental disorders and substance use: a brief guide for the primary care clinician
1. Levels of evidence
2. Management of people with comorbidity of mental disorders and substance use- 3. The common drug groups
- 4. Tobacco
- 5. Depression and substance use
- 6. Anxiety disorders and substance use
- 7. Psychosis (schizophrenia and bipolar disorder) and substance use
- 8. Personality disorders and substance use
- 9. Eating disorders and substance use
- 10. Somatoform disorders and substance use
- 11. Gambling and substance use
- 12. Brain injury, mental disorders and substance use
- 12.1 Brain injury
- 12.2 Do mental disorders predispose individuals to brain injury?
- 12.3 Does substance use predispose individuals to brain injury?
- 12.4 Does brain injury predispose individuals to mental disorders or to suicide?
- 12.5 Does brain injury predispose individuals to substance use?
- 12.6 Does brain injury impact on treatment approaches to mental disorders and substance use?
- 13. Bibliography
- 14. Appendices
Mental disorders have been associated with an increased risk of brain injury(500).
Certain personality traits or disorders can result in a higher risk of brain injury. For example(501):
- Impulsivity and risk taking or novelty seeking combined with low harm-avoidance behaviour may result in head trauma from falls or road traffic accidents.
- Impulsivity may result in unintentional overdose in inexperienced substance users(354).
- Tendency towards violence as a means of resolving conflict will result in a greater likelihood of head trauma.
