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Goal: Head trauma and traumatic brain injury are a serious public health problem. It is estimated that 55 million people per year suffer from traumatic brain damage. In terms of clinical judicial medical practices, head trauma, traumatic brain damage and cognitive destruction identification and proof of trauma-related disability claims are mainly important in many judicial files, including head trauma, traumatic brain damage and cognitive destruction. Method: The files of patients who apply for disability/deficiency assessment between 01 January 2019 and 31 December 2019 and who were detected to have a head trauma at the moment of the incident were reviewed backward. Results: The age of the incidents was between 14 and 78. The average age was 39,8±14,43, and the average age was 39. 109 (81.3%) were men and 25 (18.7%) were women. In the results of the exam, visual examinations and neurocognitive tests, traumatic brain damage was detected in 87 (64.9%), which caused significant cognitive destruction. Thirteen (9.7%) of the incidents are related to trauma (craniectomy defects, epilepsy, hearing or vision loss, etc.) The seals were identified. The Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS)-I and WMS-II points of patients were found significantly low in the post-traumatic cognitive destruction group (p=0,001). It was also found that the WMS-IV (rational memory) test results were significantly lower (p=0,001). The post-traumatic cognitive destruction diagnosis can be placed through multidisciplinary clinical examination, radiological imaging and neurobiological tests.

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