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Posted by Squiggles on July 26, 2007, at 14:18:00
Geez, i wish doctors would recognize the effects
of being kicked in the head, smashed by a baseball bat, falling from a building and cracking your head, and smashing your head against the wall since you were a kid, as possibly significant factors in causing brain damage. I have been reading on the net about certain personality and emotional disorders directly related to physical injury to the brain, especially the frontal lobes.Neurology is the area which could help with the detection of the formation of lesions as a result for example. Other damages can be detected in certain areas of the brain which are known to be responsible for certain functions.
Am I being presumptuous about brain injuries?
I am a bit peeved about applying psychotherapy to brain injury problems. How can you possibly look at the brain through talk therapy when the talk is already affected by such disorders; does it take extreme behavioural and physical expressions to recognize the link, such as blindness, mutism, amnesia, or antisocial behaviour;
I just don't get it.
Squiggles
Posted by nickguy on July 27, 2007, at 22:37:09
In reply to Frontal lobe damage and personality change, posted by Squiggles on July 26, 2007, at 14:18:00
I've sometimes wondered if a fall on the head I had a few years back is in someway related to all the problems I've had. I think I'm going to try to get a CAT scan just incase. (I don't get my hopes up for anything anymore though) Do CAT scans of the brain detect lesions, does anybody know?
Posted by Squiggles on July 28, 2007, at 6:31:41
In reply to Re: Frontal lobe damage and personality change, posted by nickguy on July 27, 2007, at 22:37:09
> I've sometimes wondered if a fall on the head I had a few years back is in someway related to all the problems I've had. I think I'm going to try to get a CAT scan just incase. (I don't get my hopes up for anything anymore though) Do CAT scans of the brain detect lesions, does anybody know?
Both MRI and CT scan are used to detect brain damage. The neurological effects can lead to diverse phenomena from optic problems, to headaches, to dementias, and emotional disturbances, even many years after the initial injury. There are tons of stuff on this on key words"brain injury" "frontal lobe" "MRI" "scan" "personality change" "stroke"
etc.
just a few here:
http://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/18/1/21?ck=nck
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumatic_brain_injury
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/acli/1997/00000009/00000001/00425246?crawler=true
Posted by Squiggles on July 28, 2007, at 7:27:13
In reply to Re: Frontal lobe damage and personality change » nickguy, posted by Squiggles on July 28, 2007, at 6:31:41
Actually, this Wikipedia article is more
appropriate to psychiatric diagnosis:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_damage
Squiggles
Posted by Larry Hoover on July 28, 2007, at 10:31:06
In reply to Frontal lobe damage and personality change, posted by Squiggles on July 26, 2007, at 14:18:00
> Geez, i wish doctors would recognize the effects
> of being kicked in the head, smashed by a baseball bat, falling from a building and cracking your head, and smashing your head against the wall since you were a kid, as possibly significant factors in causing brain damage. I have been reading on the net about certain personality and emotional disorders directly related to physical injury to the brain, especially the frontal lobes.They do. It's called "differential diagnosis", and it follows "taking a history".
> Neurology is the area which could help with the detection of the formation of lesions as a result for example. Other damages can be detected in certain areas of the brain which are known to be responsible for certain functions.
>
> Am I being presumptuous about brain injuries?Yes.
> I am a bit peeved about applying psychotherapy to brain injury problems.
How else do you presume to retrain an injured brain?
> How can you possibly look at the brain through talk therapy when the talk is already affected by such disorders; does it take extreme behavioural and physical expressions to recognize the link, such as blindness, mutism, amnesia, or antisocial behaviour;
You don't "look at the brain" through talk therapy. You learn coping strategies.
> I just don't get it.
>
> SquigglesUm-hmmm.
Lar
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