Focal and diffuse brain injury

Doctors at the University of Munich reported a bizarre case of a 25-year-old student that developed clonic seizures in his left arm. The physical education student was buried in an avalanche while on vacation which resulted in his brain being deprived of oxygen for about 15 minutes. The student developed “shock-like contractions” in both the mouth muscles when trying to talk and in his legs when he would try to walk. Weeks later while the student, who is right-handed, was attempting to solve…

their career due to physical injuries sustained during their career. The NFL and NHL need to do more to protect their players by regulating the standards of each sport, respectively. Football and hockey are both sports that require early participation and training from a young age in order to enter the professional league. Both football and hockey are contact sports that encourage aggression and physicality. Between tackling and hits, players suffer minor to major injuries that may require…

as short term. This effect is called a concussion where parts of your brain may not function as well as it use to. There are hordes of kids in high school who end up playing high school four out of 1,000 players are exposed that resulted in an injury moreover, in college is is 8 out of 1,000 players are exposed to an injury. In addition, source 1 states that high school football players are twice likely to experience an injury, they sustained a…

was done on epilepsy and is used to describe some forms of epilepsy that get more severe over time. While epilepsy is caused by different processes in the brain than bipolar disorder is, the kindling effect can apply to them. Bipolar episodes are initially triggered by stressors, but over time they happen even without the triggers because the brain becomes “kindled” or sensitized. Oliver explains that the term kindling comes from the kindling needed in fire building. The log by itself is nearly…

are among the most vulnerable to injury because they have weak necks and immature musculature, and their brains are still developing” (Cantu & Hyman, p.29). According to an article from The New York Times, “the age of twelve was chosen as a benchmark because it is roughly the point by which brains in young boys are thought to have already undergone key periods of development” (Belson, 2015). “Research has shown that boys younger than twelve who injure their brains can take longer to recover and…

Compare and Contrast Parkinson and Alzeihmer disease Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease are both degenerative brain diseases. However they differ in their symptoms, biological. Similiarities Parkinson and and alzeihmer usually occur after 50 years of age and both are neuro degenerative disease they destroy neural system thus cause in loss of memory and other neural functions. Another thing that is common between them is that they are progressive disease they get worse over time.…

Football mostly in North America is playing unsafely. Which is may well cause the brain injury. Football is being played currently, that we have seen, most it’s dangerous and similarly it may perhaps will cause long term psychological health problems. The most significant part of the human body is brain, the brain plays a great role in terms of: allows a person to think and to feel, in addition to store memories, and it controls and bring together all the organs and the human bodies to work…

traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which can be described as the degeneration of the brain. CTE has similar signs as other nerve damaging diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s diseases. Initially, there was a lack of research pertaining to athletes and CTE, but over the years an alarming increase in cases involving professional athletes and head trauma has been made. The ScienceDaily article “Evidence of brain damage found in former soccer players,” is a study that examined…

Every year there are more and more reported injuries in football, including concussions. There are many of these injuries that can cause long term effects. Players continue to get bigger, stronger, and faster every year and football equipment technology has not kept up. Football is such a dangerous sport that there should be age limits to be able to play. There are more and more kids playing sports in general. This has made sports become much more competitive and physically demanding. According…

Alzheimer’s disease is a disease that slowly progresses as a person ages. Alzheimer’s disease effects brain memory and also brain function. This happens because the brain cells slowly begin to die off. Normally when our brain cells die off, new ones take their place. For Alzheimer’s patients this is not the case. The dead cells are never replaced by new ones. This is what causes the memory loss and the loss of brain function. Most of the time Alzheimer’s patients will remember long past memories…