Emotional and behavioral dyscontrol after traumatic brain injury

DB Arciniegas, HS Wortzel - Psychiatric Clinics, 2014 - psych.theclinics.com
Support for this work was provided by National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation
Research (NIDRR) grants H133A120020 and H133A130047 (DB Arciniegas) and the Veterans …

Pathological laughing and crying: epidemiology, pathophysiology and treatment

HS Wortzel, TJ Oster, CA Anderson, DB Arciniegas - CNS drugs, 2008 - Springer
Pathological laughing and crying (PLC) is characterized by frequent, brief, intense paroxysms
of uncontrollable crying and/or laughing due to a neurological disorder. When sufficiently …

[PDF][PDF] Suicide among incarcerated veterans

HS Wortzel, IA Binswanger… - Journal of the …, 2009 - allegany.md.networkofcare.org
Method The authors performed a review based on a Medline/Pubmed/PsycINFO literature
search. The initial search was anchored to the terms “incarcerated veteran suicide.” Because …

Therapeutic risk management of the suicidal patient: stratifying risk in terms of severity and temporality

HS Wortzel, B Homaifar, B Matarazzo… - Journal of Psychiatric …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
This column is the third in a series describing a model for therapeutic risk management of
the suicidal patient. In the preceding column, we described augmenting clinical suicide risk …

Treatment of post-traumatic cognitive impairments

HS Wortzel, DB Arciniegas - Current treatment options in neurology, 2012 - Springer
Opinion statement • Cognitive impairment is a common consequence of traumatic brain
injury (TBI) and a substantial source of disability. Across all levels of TBI severity, attention, …

The DSM-5 approach to the evaluation of traumatic brain injury and its neuropsychiatric sequelae

HS Wortzel, DB Arciniegas - NeuroRehabilitation, 2014 - content.iospress.com
INTRODUCTION: The advent of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,
Fifth Edition (DSM-5) is accompanied by substantial changes in the approach taken in this …

A model for therapeutic risk management of the suicidal patient

HS Wortzel, B Matarazzo… - Journal of Psychiatric …, 2013 - journals.lww.com
While the practice of psychiatry involves many challenges, few scenarios are as clinically
and emotionally demanding as managing the patient who is at high risk for suicide. Risk …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of an immunomodulatory probiotic intervention for veterans with co-occurring mild traumatic brain injury and posttraumatic stress disorder: a pilot …

…, DP Brostow, M Mealer, HS Wortzel… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
… The views, opinions, and/or findings contained in this article are those of the author(s) and
should not be construed as an official Department of Defense or Veterans Affairs position, …

[HTML][HTML] Chronic traumatic encephalopathy and suicide: a systematic review

HS Wortzel, RD Shura, LA Brenner - BioMed research international, 2013 - hindawi.com
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a global health concern, and the recent literature reports that
a single mild TBI can result in chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). It has been …

Documenting suicide risk assessments and proportionate clinical actions to improve patient safety and mitigate legal risk

IH Stanley, S Simpson, HS Wortzel… - Behavioral Sciences & …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Few clinical practices are as important for simultaneously augmenting patient safety and
mitigating legal risk as the judicious evaluation and stratification of a patient's risk for suicide, …