Diffuse axonal injury (DAI) DAI is one of the most common types of brain injuries. It often happens during a car accident, sports injury, or fall. DAI damages your brain’s white matter, making it harder for nerve cells to communicate information. Brain damage from a DAI can be temporary...
Brain injuries may be classified as traumatic or non-traumatic to describe the cause of the injury. A non-traumaticbrain injuryis an alteration in brain function or pathology caused by an internal force. Brain injuries may also be classified as mild, moderate, or severe to indicate the initial...
which occur when the brain moves inside the skull. The movement tears fibers that connect the brain to the skull and disrupt normal brain function. Many have heard of Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS); this is an example of what occurs when babies suffer a diffuse axonal injury from abuse. Others...
Primary injuries include:lacerations, when the brain tissue is cut or torn;contusions, when the brain is bruised; rupturing of blood vessels; andaxonal injury, where neurons are stretched and torn. These can occur where the object hits the head (afocal injury) or throughout the brain (diffu...
Concussion is also followed by intracerebral bleeding, progressive brain atrophy, diffuse axonal injury, cranial nerve injury, and 2鈥 4 fold increased risk for dementia. In contrast, there is no evidence that ECT produces any of these. Studies of ECT patients find no brain edema, structural ...
A slip and fall, motor vehicle crashes, etc. Sports concussion injuries Focal damage and diffuse damage to axons, effects tend to be broad (diffuse), no penetration to the skull Deceleration Injuries (Diffuse Axonal Injury): The skull is hard and inflexible while the brain is soft with the ...
Clinical trials in head injury have been difficult to de-sign. The heterogenous nature of human TBI, with a mixture of clots, contusions, diffuse axonal injury, and vasospasm in the same individual means that the excel-lent therapeutic benefits demonstrated in animal mod-els have not always ...
But if you get a little more than that you might get a severe traumatic brain injury.” This severe traumatic brain injury can manifest in different ways. The axons, or the nerve fibres, in your brain can shear causing diffuse axonal injury (DAI), or the veins can tear leading to a ...
In traumatic brain injury, diffuse axonal injury has been associated with putatively compensatory increases in FC in addition to decreases related to the structural disconnection observable with diffusion imaging (Sharp et al., 2014). In Parkinson's disease, by combining FC with imaging modalities ...
Clinical psychologists and neuropsychologists are traditionally taught that cognition is mediated by the cortex and that subcortical brain regions mediate the coordination of movement. However, this argument can easily be challenged base... LF Koziol,DE Budding 被引量: 147发表: 2009年 A comparison of...