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Traumatic Brain Injury and Memory Loss

Depictions of head-injury patients in TBI.
movies and television almost always show Brain Damage and Anteretrograde Amnesia
the patient experiencing some type of A patient with TBI may also develop
amnesia, or memory loss. Indeed, memory anteretrograde amnesia -- an inability to
loss is the most common cognitive side form memories of events that happened
effect of a severe traumatic brain after the injury. The reason for this is
injury. In patients with a milder TBI, not well understood, but an October 2006
memory loss is still one of the most study by researchers at the Children's
common symptoms. And the more severe the Hospital of Philadelphia found that TBIs
patient's memory loss is, the more severe reduce the levels of a protein in the
the brain damage is likely to be. brain that helps it balance its activity.
Temporary Memory Loss and TBI Without enough of that protein, the brain
Some traumatic brain injury-related can "overload", the researchers said,
amnesia is temporary; such patients are interfering with memory formation,
usually unable to recall what happened particularly the ability to learn new
directly before, during and after their things.
accidents. This is often caused by edema, Treatment Options for Traumatic Brain
or a swelling of the brain in response to Injury Patients with Amnesia
the damage it sustained. Because the There is no treatment for memory loss
brain is pressed against the skull, parts caused by a traumatic brain injury; if
that were not injured are still not able the memory does not come back on its own,
to work. As the swelling goes down, the it is gone forever. However, a September
patient's memory returns, often slowly 2006 study published in Neurology, the
over a period of weeks, months or even scientific journal of the American
years. Temporary memory loss may also be Academy of Neurology, showed promising
an emotional response to the stress of results in TBI patients with
the event that caused the TBI. anteretrograde memory loss who took the
Other, less common, types of memory loss drug rivastigmine.
stemming from traumatic brain injury are The drug, which is sold to Alzheimer's
fixed. These result from damage to the disease patients under the brand name
nerves and axons (connections between Exelon, helped patients with moderate to
nerves) of the brain itself. Because the severe memory loss score better on memory
brain cannot heal itself like an arm or a tests than another group of patients that
leg, any function that is damaged during took placebos. The results were not as
a TBI is permanently impaired unless the good for patients who had only mild
brain can learn to perform that function memory loss. If you suffer from traumatic
differently. brain injury-related memory problems, you
Fixed amnesia may include inability to may wish to contact an experienced TBI
remember events before the injury, or attorney to discuss your options, which
loss of memory of the meanings of certain may include filing a brain injury lawsuit
things, such as words or smells or in order to gain compensation for your
objects. Less commonly, a person may not medical costs.
remember skills he or she had before the




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