Each function of the brain can result from brain trauma inattention, difficulty concentrating, disturbed excessive sleepiness, faulty sentence, depression, irritability, emotional outbursts, and slowed thinking. However, memory loss is one of the most common cognitive side effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Even in mild TBI memory loss is still very common. The more severe the victim of memory loss after TBI, the greater the> Brain damage is most likely.
Some of TBI-related amnesia as patients do not remember what happened before, during and after the head injury is temporary. Temporary memory loss is often caused by swelling of the brain in response to the continuing damage. But because the brain is pushed against the skull, even parts that are not violated not work in the situation. The patient's memory usually as the swelling follows a period ofWeeks or even months. Temporary memory loss may also be an emotional reaction to stressful events associated with TBI.
Damage to the nerves and axons (the connection between nerves) of the brain may also cause memory loss. The brain can not heal itself like an arm or a leg, so that any function that is compromised during a TBI is permanently damaged when the brain learns how this task differently. Fixed amnesia is the loss of the importance of certaincommon, everyday objects or words, or a person, I can not remember the skills he had before the TBI.
Another type of memory loss is anteretrograde amnesia, the inability to memories of the events that happened after the injury form. Doctors are not sure exactly why this happens, but some research has shown that there is something wrong with the fact that TBI to reduce the level of a protein in the brain, the brain may have helped balance his activities.Without prejudice enough that particular protein can easily overload the brain and memory formation is.
In general, should reduce the symptoms of brain damage over time as the brain heals but sometimes the symptoms get worse because the patient's inability to adapt to the trauma. It is not uncommon for psychological symptoms and deterioration caused by brain injury .
Currently there is no treatment forMemory loss after TBI when the store does not get back on his right, it will be lost irrevocably. It is a great need for research in the field of TBI and memory loss, but unfortunately there is no cure for TBI-related amnesia at this time.
