Primary objective of this article was to illustrate the connection between a closed head injury patient with a severe amnestic syndrome and the significant effects on frontal and thalamic memory structures. According to Collinson, Meyyappan & Rosenfeld (2009), amnesia result from an injury to the part of the brain such as diencephalon. There are other studies suggested that thalamic injuries can result in retrograde and anterograde amnesia, confabulation and severe personality changes. In addition, amnesia can results from the injury to the frontal and temporal lobe because these lobes has connection with thalamus via reciprocal and cortico-subcortical connections.
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Initial assessment at the rehabilitation hospital reveled that DD was disoriented to person, place, and time. His was slow in processing information and he was repeating words during conversation. He was repeating same joke 10 times in one to two hours session. He did not have any recollection of the accident. DD demonstrated a gross amnesia for auditory verbal information. Initial assessment of post-traumatic amnesia (PTA) score of DD was fluctuating 6 to 7 out of 12. A rehabilitation strategy used to bring DD’s visuo-spatial memory in order to aid his orientation. Two months after the accident, a repeat CT scan result showed much decrease in the size of subdural hematoma. Despite the apparent lifting of post-traumatic amnesia at 2 months post-injury, as evidenced by a return to normal sleep-wake cycle and intact attention. The patient remained disoriented and grossly confabulatory at 3 months post-injury with a pervasive retrograde amnesia and dense antero-grade amnesia for both auditory-verbal and visual-spatial information. After four months of accident, reassessed to determine his insight and orientation. At that time, he was able to recall the year and was close to recalling the day and date correctly. His could remember about the accident. However, DD remained heavily amnesic for auditory-verbal
Authors Collinson, Meyyappan & Rosenfeld (2009) of this article presented …show more content…
Initial assessment at the rehabilitation hospital reveled that DD was disoriented to person, place, and time. His was slow in processing information and he was repeating words during conversation. He was repeating same joke 10 times in one to two hours session. He did not have any recollection of the accident. DD demonstrated a gross amnesia for auditory verbal information. Initial assessment of post-traumatic amnesia (PTA) score of DD was fluctuating 6 to 7 out of 12. A rehabilitation strategy used to bring DD’s visuo-spatial memory in order to aid his orientation. Two months after the accident, a repeat CT scan result showed much decrease in the size of subdural hematoma. Despite the apparent lifting of post-traumatic amnesia at 2 months post-injury, as evidenced by a return to normal sleep-wake cycle and intact attention. The patient remained disoriented and grossly confabulatory at 3 months post-injury with a pervasive retrograde amnesia and dense antero-grade amnesia for both auditory-verbal and visual-spatial information. After four months of accident, reassessed to determine his insight and orientation. At that time, he was able to recall the year and was close to recalling the day and date correctly. His could remember about the accident. However, DD remained heavily amnesic for auditory-verbal