Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology
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The value of posttraumatic anosmia as a predictor of late social outcomes was examined in a sample of closed head injury (CHI) patients. Unemployment rates were equally high in both the anosmic and nonanosmic closed head injury patients. ⋯ Anosmic patients had longer initial hospital stays and deeper initial comatose/confusional states. Anosmia does not appear to add incrementally to disability status and it does not automatically imply the presence of basal-frontal damage.