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What is Traumatic Brain Injury?

Traumatic brain injury is a head injury caused by any sudden physical damage to the brain. This usually occurs as a result of a sudden forceful blow to the head that can be caused by either the head hitting a nonmoving object such as the steering wheel of a car; a moving object hitting the head, such as would be seen in a violent assault; or something passing through the skull and piercing the brain. According to the National Institute of Health, the major cause of traumatic head injury in the United States is motor vehicle accidents.

Mechanism of a Traumatic Brain Injury

There are two types of brain injuries. “Closed head injury” and “open head injury”. These two types of injuries almost define themselves.

Closed Head Injury

“Closed head injury” means that the skull is not fractured. These injuries can be more difficult to recognize and understand because of the relatively benign appearance of the injured body part. However, due to that fact, closed head injuries can at times be more dangerous as they are not readily recognized, and because there is no fracture to the skull, swelling and bleeding of the brain creates pressure and additional damage to brain tissue.

Open Head Injury

“Open head injury” means that the skull has been fractured. Obviously, this can cause severe injury but there are also times where the fracturing of the skull may work to alleviate built up pressure caused by bleeding and swelling which can in turn minimize the long term brain damage.

brain injury damages

Symptoms of a brain injury can be confused with other problems just as brain damages to the frontal lobes can result in various ongoing effects such as those listed below.

Dramatic increased or decreased talking
Impaired perception for taking risks or abiding by rules
Diminish or heightened outward socialization
More frequent attention deficient
Reduced problem solving abilities
Reduced creative abilites
Impaired spontaneous responses
Peculiar sexual habits if the Orbital frontal lobe is damaged
Reduced sexual drive if the Dorsolateral frontal lobe is damaged
Complete loss of smell
Complete loss of taste

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Traumatic Brain Injury

What is Traumatic Brain Injury?

Mechanism of a Traumatic Brain Injury

Closed Head Injury

Open Head Injury

brain injury damages

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