1.1 Introduction: The incidence of zygomatic complex fracture is relatively high. A thorough understanding of the diagnosis and the surgical principles are of critical importance. The zygomatic bone provides the facial appearance, through its cheek prominence. This prominence plays an important role in the protection of the eye.…
“The only injury I had was to my brain. The doctors said it was so badly shaken inside my head it looked like shredded Jell-O in my brain stem area,” said Masters, who remained in a coma for a year and was not expected to survive. The long-term effects of her traumatic brain injury have affected her speech and hearing and also have limited her physically, “but I understand things and my mind is alert,” she writes. “I spend a lot of time reading and praying.…
When researcher measure the amount of damage do the different regions of the brain 43 percent had levels that were below the average norms. There is a lot of nerve damage specifically to the axons, and cause the brain not to relays messages to different parts of the brain to executive functioning can…
The videos “Plastic Brain 1” and “Plastic Brain 2,” illustrate how the brain is malleable and that it is critical to foster neural connections with respect to vision at an early age, otherwise those necessary connections may never be made. The patient depicted in the videos, Holly, is an infant with a cataract that was subsequently surgically removed. This example was employed in order to illustrate how the brain forms visual processing and the importance of early intervention should visual abnormalities be detected in infants. Neuroplasticity refers to the brain’s malleability. In other words, the human brain is constantly forming new neural pathways, adapting and changing as a result of learning and experience.…
When this occurs the brain cannot function normally. A person’s vision may be effected.…
When they are not fatal, then they usually cause a person to lose behavioral or sensory functions. These function loss is in the parts controlled by the area of the brain that is injured. The other type of brain injury is called a closed brain injury. This occurs when the head is hit so hard that it makes the brain hit the side of the skull. Because of so much force when the brain hits the skull, it breaks connections between parts of the brain.…
The visual system has been shown to be more responsive and is especially sensitive to a special class of objects called faces. Recognition is defined as the ability to recognize different faces from one another in multiple situations. A key component of facial perception is a commonly known condition called prosopagnosia. This term ‘prosopagnosia’ described the condition that limits a person’s ability to recognize the face of others. This condition means that the process of non-facial recognition differs greatly from facial recognition.…
Depending on the part of the brain affected and the severity of the injury, the result on any one individual can vary greatly. Personality changes, memory and judgement deficits, lack of impulse control, and poor concentration are all common. Behavioral changes can be stressful for families and caregivers who must learn to adapt their communication techniques, established relationships, and expectations of what the impaired person can or cannot do. New sensitivities can also be very challenging and baffling for the injured person and their loved…
Occipital injury may also affect the ability to recognize and interpret familiar objects. Temporal lobe damage will affect hearing, language, the ability to recognize faces known as prosopagnosia, and the processing of sensory information. Damage to the cerebellum will affect movement, such as the manner in which people walk, and muscle tone. Movement will become more uncoordinated, speech will become more slurred and difficult to understand. The cerebellum is also connected to the cerebrum, so damage to the cerebellum may disrupt functions of other parts of the brain.…
During the injury, A person may or may not experience a brief loss of consciousness and may go into a state of confusion and be unable to remember events that occur after the injury and before…
Diffuse Axonal injury can be caused by shaking or strong rotation of the head, by rotational forces such as with a car crash. Injury occurs because the unmoving brain moves later than the movement of the skull, which causes some brain structures to tear. This disturbance is enough to cause permanent widespread brain damage, coma, or death. "Penetrating injury occurs when the brain is impacted by a bullet, knife or other sharp object that forces hair, skin, bones, and fragments from the object into the brain"(Mayo Clinic). " A through-and-through injury occurs if an object enters the skull, goes through the brain, and exits the skull.…
Dr. Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran was born in 1951, in Tamil Nadu, India. Ramachandran moved around India and Asia with his family. Dr. Ramachandran is “Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and Distinguished Professor with the Psychology Department and Neurosciences Program at the University of California, San Diego, and Adjunct Professor of Biology at the Salk Institute”. Dr. Vilayanur Ramachandran is “best known for work on visual perception and experiments in behavioral neurology”. Ramachandran is an published author in several scientific journals and books.…
What is Bell’s palsy? Bell’s palsy is paralysis of part or whole of the person’s face. According to the National Institute of Health (NIH) bell’s palsy occurs when the facial nerves (cranial nerves) which controls the muscles for facial expression is weak or swollen and therefore paralyses the one of one side of the face or the whole face in rare cases. It usually occurs without signs or warning with severe pain.…
Ruptured Globe A ruptured globe is when the surface of your eye is split open due to an injury. This can happen when something sharp punctures the eyeball or when the eyeball is struck so hard that it breaks open. A ruptured globe is a medical emergency. CAUSES…
The accident damaged her temporal lobe or the more specific hippocampal region.…