Saturday, February 12, 2011

A brain on crutches


People with head injuries suffer:
·      -  Memory loss
·       - Ability loss
·       - Personality loss
·       - Loss of cognitive skills
·        -Paralysis
·       - Double vision
·        -Difficulty of moving

Traumatic brain injuries occur when too much force is applied to the skull. This could be due to the car accidents, fights, falls, etc. Almost a quarter of a million Americans are hospitalized every year with brain injuries.
There are three types of injuries:
1) contusion
2) Axonal injury
3) Bleeding in brain

The part of the brain that is usually injured and that suffers the most damage is the frontal lobe. This is the largest lobe in the brain, and it controls reasoning, planning, movement, some aspects of speech, connected with the emotions, and the lymphatic system. The temporal lobe is one of the parts of the brain that is usually damaged, and this damage may lead you to lack of ability to speak clearly. 

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