postconcussional syndrome

In a box at the bottom of the page, he scrawled the words "postconcussional syndrome."

At the beginning of World War II, the term "shell shock" was banned by the British Army, though the phrase "postconcussional syndrome" was used to describe similar traumatic responses.

Some Symptoms Take Time One reason for caution is a condition known as postconcussional syndrome, a collection of symptoms that, surprisingly enough, are more common after mild head injuries than after severe ones.