In neuroscience, “HM” was a superstar of brain research. This man, who had suffered from epileptic seizures since he was a teenager, was 27 when surgeons took a radical approach to treat his malady. In 1953 they operated and removed his brain’s anterior temporal lobe, including most of the amygdala..
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Amnesia After Severe Brain Injury: Zach Part Three Zach believes that his amnesia after severe brain injury ends and he remembers the moment he awoke from his coma. For a coma that is not drug induced, this would be highly unusual. However, to the degree his coma was induced, it is..
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Making Decisions: Craig Part Twenty Two Craig discusses some of the challenges he incurred on his job all of which are typical of a survivor of traumatic brain injury. Making decisions is one of them. Along with making decisions he also struggled with amnesia and inhibitions. Amnesia Now, you said..
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Frontal Lobe Issues: Craig Part Eleven Craig discusses some of the problems that he is having with frontal lobe issues and how there wasn’t any preparation for this when he was discharged. Amnesia One of the Frontal Lobe Issues While we were off camera, you had some additional thoughts about..
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Going Home After TBI: Craig Part Eight In Part Eight, Craig tells us about his experience with going home after TBI. He has very little memory of this and what he does have is vague. Difficulties with Going Home After TBI Let’s get a sense of time. You are..
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Elizabeth Part Two Elizabeth suffered a second, seemingly mild, brain injury three years after her first injury. After clocking out from her job one day in March of 2005, conditions were slippery when walking to her truck; Elizabeth fell and once again hit her head. Unlike her first injury, she..
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Elizabeth Part One Although one might reason that a more significant brain injury is harder to recover from than a less severe injury, this is not always the case. Elizabeth suffered from both a major brain injury involving coma and brain surgery and what is commonly referred to as a..
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Part Twenty Twenty Eight -Lori tells us about her book Am I Brain Damaged? Am I Brain Damaged? By LoriPurdy Faitel One month before I turned 25 years old, I was in a devastating car accident. I was clinically dead 2 times, and then was kept alive on life support..
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Prior to Brain Injury: Lori Part Four In this part we talk to Lori about who she was prior to brain injury. What was her life like prior to the accident and prior to brain injury. Let’s talk about who you were before you got hurt prior to brain..
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Severity of TBI: Lori Part Two There are primarily two methods to classify the severity of TBI, the length of coma (or loss of consciousness) and the length of amnesia. In assessing amnesia, it is not so much the loss of memory for events before the injury that is significant (retrograde..
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