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