Steven Mattis

TL;DR: The authors postulated that consecutively admitted patients who fulfilled research diagnostic criteria for minor head injury and who were carefully screened for antecedent neuropsychiatric disorder and prior head injury would exhibit subacute cognitive and memory deficits that would resolve over a period of 1 to 3 months postinjury.

TL;DR: It is suggested that geriatric depression with reversible dementia is a clinical entity that includes a group of patients with early-stage dementing disorders and is an indication for a thorough diagnostic workup and frequent follow-ups in order to identify treatable neurological disorders.

TL;DR: Higher mean arterial pressures during cardiopulmonary bypass can be achieved in a technically safe manner and effectively improve outcomes after coronary bypass.

TL;DR: This is the largest trial of the effects of general vs regional anesthesia on cerebral function reported to date, with more than 99% power to detect a clinically significant difference on any of the neuropsychological tests.

TL;DR: Ventriculosystemic shunting was beneficial chiefly in patients with communicating hydrocephalus consequent to postmeningeal irritation and the CSF infusion test with fewer false positives was also not diagnostic by itself, thus emphasizing that diagnosis ultimately depends on histology.