Summary: Short-Term Effects Of Traumatic Brain Injury

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One of the effects of TBI on brain and cognition is concussion. It can be short-term or long-term problem. Concussion will happen is because the head move rapidly back and forth when the traumatic blow to the head. This will cause the brain bounced and twisted around inside the skull. It can damage the delicate cells and structures inside the brain as well as affect the brain function due to physical and chemical changes in the brain. However, it is more difficult to find out that whether the children have concussion or not. Parents should pay attention if their children have these symptoms: appearing dazed, listlessness, tires out easily, irritability, crankiness, excessive crying, and loss of balance, unsteady working, changed in eating or sleeping patterns. For the short-term effects, you will feel headache, a temporary loss of consciousness, feeling as the brain is in a fog, delayed respond to the question, dizziness, ringing in the ears, feel nausea or vomiting, fatigue, blurred vision, sensitive to the sound and light. If the patients ignored the short-term problems then they will have the risk turning into long-term problems. The long-term problems will affect the …show more content…
DAI occurs because of the typical brain movement suddenly change the velocity of the head. This makes the brain moves backward and forward quickly inside the skull. The people with DAI will has these symptoms which are disorientation or confusion, headache, nausea or vomiting, drowsiness or fatigue, trouble get into sleeping, loss of balance or dizziness (Young, 2017). Besides that, the interconnecting neurons will disrupted by DAI and it has a devastating effect on overall neurological function. The severe DAI patient will facing loss of consciousness and has high risk become persistent vegetative state. However, it will not affect essential cardiac and respiratory brain function. So DAI rarely causes