What is Traumatic Brain Injury?
A traumatic brain injury can drastically alter the quality of life for you and your loved ones. When these injuries are very severe, victims may require a lifetime of daily care. This financial and emotional hardship can put stress on even the strongest of families.
Traumatic brain injuries are often the result of a violent blow to the head or a sharp object piercing the skull, inflicting damage on brain tissue. These injuries range in severity from mild concussions to severe brain damage that may possibly result in death.
Causes of Traumatic Brain Injury
Your brain is housed inside your skull. It is surrounded by a fluid-like substance that protects it from the ordinary shocks and bumps it sustains on a daily basis. However, this fluid is not equipped to provide protection from severe blows. When your head sustains a jarring blow, your brain may crash against the wall of your skull.
As a result of this collision, your brain may suffer internal bleeding and torn nerve fibers. Sometimes symptoms of brain injuries may take awhile to become apparent. Often, you may feel perfectly normal immediately following a blow to the head. However, as pressure builds up inside your skull from internal bleeding, you may begin to exhibit symptoms. Sometimes this takes several hours or even several days to occur. Therefore, it is crucial that you get examined by a doctor immediately following a blow to the head. By catching your brain injury early, you may prevent permanent brain damage.
Traumatic brain injuries are a common result of:
Symptoms of Traumatic Brain Injury
Symptoms of traumatic brain injuries are very diverse. Depending on the nature and severity of your injury, you may experience several of the following symptoms, but you will most likely not experience all of them:
Brain Injury Lawyers
If you suffered a traumatic brain injury in an accident caused by the negligent actions of another person, you may be eligible to receive compensation for your damages. It is important to consult an experienced brain injury lawyer who can evaluate your claim and advise you on how to properly proceed. When staring at the financial burdens of massive medical bills, rehabilitation, and long term care, it is important to be represented by an attorney who can give you the greatest likelihood of success in your claim.
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If you have a brain injury claim in the Vancouver, British Columbia area, please contact the Law Offices of Stephens & Holman today to schedule an initial consultation.
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December 2nd, 2010 at 8:34 am
its triggered by a life changing event when you saw someone die or you almost (or thought you would) die or hearing about a traumatic event usually. the main symptoms are replaying it over and over and over and over in your head and cant stop, nightmares and avoiding things that make you think about the event, which generalises to heaps of things. Also, sweating, pacing, abusing alcohol or drugs to forget, anger, depression, anxiety. it is so much worse than normal stress. It usually starts about 4 to 6 weeks after the event. You improve by getting help fast: medication and a good therapist who specialised in trauma.
December 7th, 2010 at 12:10 pm
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February 20th, 2011 at 6:06 pm
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh it was a traumatic night! I'm still recovering! :')
April 23rd, 2011 at 5:17 am
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May 11th, 2011 at 6:55 am
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May 22nd, 2011 at 8:19 pm
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June 11th, 2011 at 2:59 am
Mapping of the progressive maturation of the human brain in childhood and adolescence has found an initial overproduction of synapses in the gray matter after birth, which is followed, for the most part just before puberty, with their systematic pruning. This process occurs in different regions at different times, with gray matter loss beginning first in the motor and sensory parts of the brain, and then slowly spreading downwards and forwards, to areas involved in spatial orientation, speech and language development, and attention (upper and lower parietal lobes), then to the areas involved in executive functioning, attention or motor coordination (frontal lobes), and finally to the areas that integrate these functions (temporal lobe). The sequence appears to agree with regionally relevant milestones in cognitive development.
June 30th, 2011 at 9:06 am
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August 8th, 2011 at 5:32 pm
Online harassment or cyberstalking is more stressful and traumatic than its physical equivalent.
August 8th, 2011 at 9:43 pm
It's on you for the most part. But if the car was in your parents name the lawyers or insurance may attempt a little scare tactic, but your 18 so they should not have anything to worry about except higher payments on the insurance bill.
August 25th, 2011 at 5:24 am
earthquakes can be very scary. No one likes the earth shaking. First time can be traumatic.
August 25th, 2011 at 10:40 am
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September 1st, 2011 at 4:22 am
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September 9th, 2011 at 5:04 pm
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September 22nd, 2011 at 1:02 am
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September 28th, 2011 at 6:23 am
Three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of leisure.
October 7th, 2011 at 8:37 am
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October 12th, 2011 at 2:44 pm
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October 18th, 2011 at 6:26 am
Watching this video is so weird and seemingly fractal or circular. When I watch this video, my brain is thinking about itself. And when I think about how my brain is thinking about itself, my brain is thinking about how it’s thinking about itself. ETC.
November 13th, 2011 at 11:41 am
Ishant Sharma said the mood in the dressing room is great after the addition of Varun Aaron and Umesh Yadav while also adding that he has completely recovered from the ankle injury and does not need surgery.
November 13th, 2011 at 3:54 pm
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November 19th, 2011 at 7:28 pm
Dobbie was awful I know he’s come back from injury but wrong game to come back in! I’d have kept Routledge on….
November 26th, 2011 at 9:53 am
Ronny Franks has spent the past year battling to regain her memory after suffering a traumatic brain injury when she tripped and hit her head on a wooden floor.
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November 27th, 2011 at 4:30 pm
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December 9th, 2011 at 1:00 am
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December 9th, 2011 at 7:24 am
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December 28th, 2011 at 4:55 pm
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January 25th, 2012 at 1:36 pm
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January 26th, 2012 at 9:35 am
I don’t really think anything, my brain doesn’t really have thoughts. #shitmyfriendssay
February 10th, 2012 at 5:55 am
“Seung envisions the brain’s connections as the “streambed” through which our consciousness flows. At a molecular level, that streambed consists of billions of synapses, in which one neuron sends signals to the next via chemical neurotransmitters. While scientists once believed that synapses could not be changed after formation, they now know that synapses are continuously strengthening, weakening, disappearing and reforming, as we learn new things and have new experiences.
While neuroscientists have long hypothesized that the key to our unique selves lies in those connections, this has proven impossible to test because the technology to map the connections did not exist. That is now changing, due to the efforts of Seung and a handful of other neuroscientists around the world.
At the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany, neuroscientists in the laboratory of Winfried Denk have taken extremely thin slices of brain tissue and generated electron-microscope images of all the neural connections within each slice. Similar high-resolution images are being acquired in the laboratory of Jeff Lichtman at Harvard University. However, the next step — mapping those connections — is extremely time-consuming. Seung estimates that it would take 100,000 years for a lone worker to trace the connections in one cubic millimeter of brain tissue.
To help speed that up, Seung and his colleagues have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system, which they presented at the International Conference on Computer Vision and the Neural Information Processing Systems Conference in 2009. However, the system still requires human guidance, so the researchers are enlisting the help of the general public through a website called eyewire.org. “The brain is like a vast jungle of neurons,” Seung says. “They’re like trees that are all tangled up together, and people can help us explore that.””
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March 21st, 2012 at 2:52 am
There is no evidence right now that Staff Sergeant Bales, who was airlifted out of Afghanistan to Kuwait and is now at Fort Leavenworth, is mentally ill. He had been declared fit for his Afghanistan tour despite his traumatic brain injury.
March 23rd, 2012 at 4:11 am
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April 2nd, 2012 at 5:33 pm
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April 6th, 2012 at 9:13 pm
how traumatic for you your car/cat accident. I want to wet baby’s head too !
April 17th, 2012 at 4:04 am
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April 22nd, 2012 at 4:40 am
You cry every day? I bet your life is really that traumatic. #muahaha