Brain Injury Health Feed

The neurones in the brain are constantly reorganising their connections both functionally and physically according to the environment, your thinking and behaviour. This ability is known as neuroplasticity. Through neuroplasticity the nerve cells of brain can compensate for injury to some parts of the brain and enable a person to recover from stroke, birth abnormalities. It is also beneficial in treating autism, ADD, learning disabilities and helps manage obsessive compulsive disorders.

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Hello and welcome to Lybrate. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice. Nothing will happen to you after one or two brain scan. Don't have this misconception about the matter. Just take it off from your mind.
Hope I have answered your query. You can contact me for further advice and treatment options. Let me know if I can assist you further. Take care.

I don't think that kind of minor trauma will produce any brain injury. The symptoms you are experiencing maybe psychological feeling of thinking about it. Still if you want to rule out any underlying damage to brain get a ct scan of brain done. This is will rule out your doubts.

Brain mapping is a technique where the biological quantities of a human brain are represented as spatial quantities resulting in maps. As with many other medical technologies, brain mapping is fast-evolving as well. Among several uses, brain mapping is chiefly used while performing surgery on the brain.

When surgery is to be performed on the brain such as surgery for epilepsy, the surgeon would want to comprehend how the brain areas are affected by seizures. The surgical intervention is...more

In this case go for CT head urgently & ,consult to neuro surgeon for further management and treatment.

What is Injury?

Injury is any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc

Symptoms of Injuries-

Loss of consciousness
Difficulty with speaking, seeing, hearing, walking, or understanding.
Irritability
Severe headache
Vomiting
Causes of Injuries-

Medication side effects
cuts from broken glass, knives, scissors or axes
Chronic headaches
Accidents
Falls from cots, windows, tables and stairs
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What is Intracranial hematoma?

An intracranial hematoma occurs when a blood vessel ruptures within your brain or between your skull and your brain. An intracranial hematoma often requires surgery to remove the blood.

Symptoms of Intracranial hematoma-

Headache
Vomiting
Loss of consciousness
Dizziness
Confusion
Lethargy
Seizures
Unequal pupil size
Weak limbs on one side of your body
Increased blood pressure
Causes of Intracranial ...more

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Regardless of whether the cause is a tumor, trauma, stroke or any other illness, any injury which inflicts damage on your brain cells is considered to be a brain damage.

There are two types of brain damage, both of which interfere with the standard functioning of the brain.
They are:

Acquired brain injury (ABI): Either resulting from a tumor or a neurological illness, for instance a stroke, this type of brain injury originates from the cellular level and is commonly linke...more