Amnesia of the Brain
How would you feel if you suffered a traumatic injury and lost all of your memories? Regarding Henry is about a New York City lawyer who struggles to regain his memory and recover his speech and mobility after he survives a shooting. One bullet hits his right frontal lobe, while the other pierces his chest and hits his left subclavian vein. He experiences anoxia, resulting in brain damage. Henry survives but initially he can neither move nor talk and he suffers retrograde amnesia. He slowly regains movement and speech with the help of a physical therapist. There were many things that were inaccurate in the movie like how Henry’s memory changed, how quickly he was relearning things, and the caregiving issues.
In Regarding Henry, Henry couldn’t remember anything from his past life before the incident happened. Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center (2016) states that you don’t forget …show more content…
Shepherd Center states that there is more caregiving that needs to be done than just that (n.d.). Henry might have been walking and talking but his family should've done a little more to make sure he was really comfortable. Shepherd Center states that you can provide a quiet and calm environment, talk in short simple sentences, and orient the person to the day, place, and situation(n.d.). For example, how quickly Henry learned to read shouldn’t have been just a day. This states that the family should have taken their time to reteach Henry how to really say the words.
Some people would say that after a traumatic injury, the person’s personality does not change. They are wrong because NCBI states that traumatic brain injury is frequently complicated by alterations in mood and behavior and changes in personality(2011). For example, the way Henry acted towards his daughter when she would spill something anywhere is one of the things that should not have changed after the brain
How would you feel if you suffered a traumatic injury and lost all of your memories? Regarding Henry is about a New York City lawyer who struggles to regain his memory and recover his speech and mobility after he survives a shooting. One bullet hits his right frontal lobe, while the other pierces his chest and hits his left subclavian vein. He experiences anoxia, resulting in brain damage. Henry survives but initially he can neither move nor talk and he suffers retrograde amnesia. He slowly regains movement and speech with the help of a physical therapist. There were many things that were inaccurate in the movie like how Henry’s memory changed, how quickly he was relearning things, and the caregiving issues.
In Regarding Henry, Henry couldn’t remember anything from his past life before the incident happened. Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center (2016) states that you don’t forget …show more content…
Shepherd Center states that there is more caregiving that needs to be done than just that (n.d.). Henry might have been walking and talking but his family should've done a little more to make sure he was really comfortable. Shepherd Center states that you can provide a quiet and calm environment, talk in short simple sentences, and orient the person to the day, place, and situation(n.d.). For example, how quickly Henry learned to read shouldn’t have been just a day. This states that the family should have taken their time to reteach Henry how to really say the words.
Some people would say that after a traumatic injury, the person’s personality does not change. They are wrong because NCBI states that traumatic brain injury is frequently complicated by alterations in mood and behavior and changes in personality(2011). For example, the way Henry acted towards his daughter when she would spill something anywhere is one of the things that should not have changed after the brain