| Sufferers of traumatic brain injury (TBI)
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| | skills he or she had before the TBI.
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| can have many symptoms after a tragic
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| | Brain Damage and Anteretrograde Amnesia
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| accident. One of the most common symptoms
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| | A patient with TBI may also develop
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| is memory loss, also known as amnesia.
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| | anteretrograde amnesia -- an inability to
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| Memory loss and amnesia can occur in
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| | form memories of events that happened
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| individuals with the mildest of head
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| | after the injury. The reason for this is
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| injuries as well as those with extremely
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| | not well understood, but an October 2006
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| severe brain injuries.
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| | study by researchers at the Children's
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| Temporary Memory Loss and TBI
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| | Hospital of Philadelphia found that TBIs
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| Some traumatic brain injury-related
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| | reduce the levels of a protein in the
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| amnesia is temporary; such patients are
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| | brain that helps it balance its activity.
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| usually unable to recall what happened
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| | Without enough of that protein, the brain
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| directly before, during and after their
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| | can "overload," the researchers said,
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| accidents. This is often caused by edema,
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| | interfering with memory formation,
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| or a swelling of the brain in response to
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| | particularly the ability to learn new
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| the damage it sustained. Parts of the
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| | things.
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| brain that were uninjured in a traumatic
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| | Treatment Options for Traumatic Brain
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| brain injury incident may not work
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| | Injury Patients with Amnesia
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| because the brain is pressed against the
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| | There is no treatment for memory loss
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| skull. As the swelling goes down, the
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| | caused by a traumatic brain injury; if
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| patient's memory returns, often slowly
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| | the memory does not come back on its own,
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| over a period of weeks, months or even
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| | it is gone forever. However, a September
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| years. Memory loss, specifically
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| | 2006 study published in Neurology, the
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| temporary memory loss, can be just an
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| | scientific journal of the American
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| emotional side affect of the TBI, which
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| | Academy of Neurology, showed promising
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| is usually stress related caused by the
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| | results in TBI patients with
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| trauma of the injury.
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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. The drug, which is
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| stemming from traumatic brain injury are
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| | sold to Alzheimer's disease patients
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| fixed. These result from damage to the
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| | under the brand name Exelon, helped
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| nerves and axons (connections between
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| | patients with moderate to severe memory
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| nerves) of the brain itself. Brain
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| | loss score better on memory tests than
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| injuries are often more traumatic than a
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| | another group of patients that took
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| regular injury as a brain cannot heal
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| | placebos. The results were not as good
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| itself as other body parts, therefore,
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| | for patients who had only mild memory
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| traumatic brain injuries can cause
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| | loss. If you suffer from traumatic brain
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| permanent damage. Fixed amnesia may
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| | injury-related memory problems, you may
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| include inability to remember events
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| | wish to contact an experienced TBI
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| before the injury, or loss of memory of
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| | attorney to discuss your options, which
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| the meanings of certain things, such as
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| | may include filing a brain injury lawsuit
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| words or smells or objects. Less
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| | in order to gain compensation for your
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| commonly, a person may not remember
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| | medical costs.
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