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Researchers have linked brain
injury to anger and aggression
According to the American Academy of Neurology, researchers have
examined 145 patients within 3-12 months of their brain injury and
found that 32% of the patients (47 people) had become unable to
control anger or aggression as a result of their brain injury. Researchers
also examined brain lesions and found a correlation between the
location of the brain lesion and the appearance of anger and aggression.
People’s inability to control anger and aggression was often
present when the frontal, lenticulocapsular, and pontine base areas
were affected. A doctor at the Department of Neurology, Asan Medical
Center, Jong S. Kim, found that, “We think that the inability
to control anger and aggression is more likely a symptom of brain
injury.”
A study published in the June 2003 issue of the Archives of Neurology
has linked a gene associated with Alzheimer’s disease to be
the same one possibly linked to posttraumatic brain injury seizures.
Researchers think that APOE (epsilon 4) gene may increase the risk
of suffering seizures following a traumatic brain injury. Brain
injury patients with the epsilon 4 variation had a 2.41 times greater
risks of late posttraumatic seizure than patients without that gene.
The number one cause of death and disability in children and in
adults under 45 years of age is traumatic brain injury. Extremely
complex, there is currently no brain injury treatment as of yet.
A University of Florida study just tested cyclosporine on severe
adult brain injury and it appeared to stop the calcium build up
in the brain’s nerve cells that can be very damaging. The
possible brain injury drug is still under trial at the University
of Florida and the Medical College of Virginia.
It is estimated that there are 1.5 million traumatic brain injury
instances that occur every year. Cognitive, physical, and personality,
as well as other changes can occur depending on the severity of
the brain injury and the location of it. Brain injury can continue
to cause damage in the brain for days after the injury has taken
place because swelling of the brain can result in my brain damage.
In addition, a brain injury can result in damaging biochemical changes.
Contact us to confer with a traumatic
brain injury lawyer.
According to the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control,
an estimated 1.5 million cases of traumatic brain injury occurs
in the U.S. every year. This number far exceeds what most people
even know about traumatic brain injury. Statistics show that Americans
need to become more educated about the incidence of traumatic brain
injury, as around 50,000 Americans die every year because of a traumatic
brain injury. There are 80,000-90,000 Americans that are left to
suffer long-term or permanent disability because of traumatic brain
injury.
Many problems can result from suffering a traumatic brain injury
depending on what area of the brain sustained the damage. Cognitive,
physical, and behavioral changes are often incurred because of a
traumatic brain injury that cannot always be treated. Some traumatic
brain injury victims will find that they must re-learn how to do
things they have been doing practically their entire lives.
Often, a secondary brain injury can be suffered after a traumatic
brain injury that doctors have no way of stopping as of yet. There
is research performed on traumatic brain injury and researchers
and doctors hope to learn more information about traumatic brain
injury and how to better treat the injury to minimize its’
effects.
One of the most common neurological conditions someone can have
is a brain injury that can result in drastic behavioral changes.
Depending on the area of the brain the traumatic brain injury occurs
at can affect what type of damage is suffered. Traumatic brain injuries
occur for a wide range of reasons on a scale much larger than most
people ever realize.
Taking as many precautions as possible to reduce risk of suffering
a traumatic brain injury can help needless suffering and pain. Serious
traumatic brain injury victims often feel they have lost part of
themselves and must sometimes relearn how to do things that once
came second nature to them. Contact us
to confer with a traumatic brain injury lawyer.
A new study performed on head injury victims has made a link between
sufferers of severe head injury with loss of consciousness and a
higher risk of developing Parkinson’s disease later in life.
The risk amongst the severe head injury patients was found to be
11 times greater according to the study’s author from the
Mayo Clinic.
There were three explanations for the findings produced by the
study team. One explanation was that when a head injury is suffered
the blood brain barrier is disrupted so certain poisons from the
bloodstream can get into the brain and lead to cell death, which
can take years to happen. The head injury may also cause brain cells
to produce new proteins that can lead to cell death, or the least
likely explanation according to the study author is that following
a head injury some cells are lost and with aging and cell death
it can reach a point when Parkinson’s develops.
Contact us to confer with a traumatic
brain injury lawyer.
Findings by a team of researchers in Germany and the United States
may indicate that after suffering a brain injury, highly specific
therapeutic plans can help with resetting the brain’s image
of the body. More research and studies will be performed on the
possibility of developing new therapies and improving rehabilitation
of motor and sensory disorders in brain injury patients.
A West Virginia University study has found that multiple mild traumatic
brain injuries can increase risk of developing clinical depression.
The risk was found to be nearly three times greater than with people
that have no history of concussion. The study findings were presented
at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological
Surgeons. The study’s author concluded concussions and other
head injuries in early adulthood greatly increase the risks of depression
years later as well, concussion are reported to have a long-lasting
and permanent effect on thinking and memory skills later in life.
More than half a million young people are hospitalized every
year in the U.S. following a head injury with 3,000 resulting in
death because of it. The most common traumatic brain injuries children
experience are from car crashes and falls from bikes, playgrounds,
and stairs. An assistant professor of pediatrics at the University
of Maryland School of Medicine, Dr. Courtney Robertson along with
her colleagues, are trying to determine if the brains of children
and adults recover differently from head injuries. Dr. Robertson
advises taking extra precautions to prevent traumatic brain injuries
from ever occurring since there are no cures for traumatic brain
injuries.
A freshman on the Montana football team is currently testing a new
helmet. At a hefty $155 per helmet it may revolutionize the technology
in football helmets. Sports related traumatic brain injuries have
a high incidence, and especially in contact sports, like football,
the risk for mild traumatic brain injuries is very high. Whether
or not the new football helmet will be incorporated into the sport
of football is still to be determined.
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