Abstract:
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Following the presence of both post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and post-concussion syndrome (PCS) in the nosography since the publication of DSM-IV, large-scale studies investigated the links between these two entities: exposure to a mild traumatic brain injury was correlated with the presence of PTSD and vice versa, and the strongest factor associated with PCS was the presence of PTSD. But PCS entity was recently suppressed from the 5th edition of the American diagnostic and statistical classification of neuropsychiatric disorders (DSM-5, 2013). In the 11th edition of the CIM, PCS is also likely to be omitted. This elimination raises more questions if we take into consideration the emancipation of PTSD, which now includes the full category of 'disorders related to trauma and stressors' to which PCS could have legitimately been added [Extrait du résumé d'auteur]
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