Brain

In How God Changes your Brain Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman give some very insightful descriptions of the chemical and emotional changes and processes that are occur in the brain. In this book these changes are explained in detail and the different processes that are involved with growing and maintaining a faith. The concept of faith and religious practice having a strong effect on the brain has often been the topic of debate and conflict within the religious community and secular…

reflexes. The Traumatic Brain Injury was a result of head injury where the skin and the bone of the skull penetrated but closed injury. Concussion is the most common injury in which the brain received high impact. It was classified as moderate Traumatic Brain Injury which assisted to know in aid to planning of management and prognosis. The Glasgow coma scale was 8/15 which falls under moderate classification. There is not so much of equipment or tools to diagnose Traumatic Brain Injury in…

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide in individuals under the age of 45. The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts that TBIs will be the third largest contributor to the global burden of disease and mortality by 2020 (WHO, 2006). Over the years, there have been connections seen between concussions, and emotional difficulties and suicide. There has also been increasing evidence that moderate and severe TBI is an important risk factor…

Service Provided Brain Injury Association of Michigan (BIAMI) is a nonprofit organization that create and spread awareness of brain injury throughout Michigan. The focus of BIAMI is to help improve the lives of individuals affected by brain injury and to minimize the incidence and effect of brain injury through education, advocacy, support, treatment services and research (Brain Injury Association of Michigan, 2015). Services offered include support groups throughout the state; educational…

The Brain The human body consists of many different parts, but the most important one is the brain. The brain communicate with trillions of synapses, and has specialized areas that work together to make the brain function as one. The brain has developed ways to respond to different injuries, for example headache and strokes. Scientists have found treatments. The name of one is Thrombolytics. Thrombolytics is injected through the vein to help cure strokes. Also, this organ has a helmet like…

Individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) frequently experience visual complications as a result of their injury. One of the common symptoms is a visual and visual perceptual deficit. I have 2 patients with visual perceptual of visual scanning deficit. They both avoid shifting their eye towards the opposite half of the visual space. This avoidance is creating asymmetric scanning pattern that is inaccurate and inefficient. These two patients are missing both detail and configuration in…

When the Brain Dies First, written by Margaret O. Hyde and John F. Setaro, M.D., is a detailed book about the brain and what happens when it dies before the other organs. The brain is a 3.5 pound organ that controls everything from walking to breathing. When the brain dies before the rest of the body, the person is pronounced brain dead. But how is a person brain dead? Certain diseases can slowly deteriorate the brain until it is gone. Diseases such as Alzheimers, Parkinsons, Huntingtons, and…

Brain Injury and Behavior: Aggravation to Aggression Of all the behaviors patients develop following traumatic brain injury, aggression is one of the most common. It can present in a wide spectrum of behaviors ranging from simple annoyance or anger, to extremes of physical violence. In one of the more recent studies reviewed, it was apparent that some of the lower level behaviors, such as irritability, were not being recognized as a potential psychological component of brain injury. This…

Preventing Traumatic Brain Injuries In Accidents What is a Traumatic Brain Injury? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a traumatic brain injury is caused by: “bump, blow, or jolt to the head or a penetrating head injury that disrupts the normal function of the brain.” A “bump, blow, or jolt” to the head is referred to as a closed head injury because the skull is not penetrated. Closed head injuries are common in motor vehicle accidents and slip and fall accidents.…

of preventing injuries is to warm up before practicing or playing. Teaching kids to hit and tackle by not leading with their head will help in the future by decreasing the number of head injuries per year. Concussion is a reference to traumatic brain injury. The symptoms of a concussion are headaches, dizziness, difficulty concentrating, irritability, and a sense that you don’t feel like yourself. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS has been known to more likely occur in former NFL players…