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One of the most frightening things about traumatic brain injury (TBI) is that it shows us how little we know about the brain. While busy, concerned medical staff try to explain what’s damaged, they can lose you in a sea of medical terms.
To help out traumatic brain injury survivors and their families, here’s a list of the major parts of the brain and how injury from an accident can affect them. We got this info from brainline.org, which is a great resource for injury victims.
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As you might expect, the frontal lobes are right behind the forehead. It’s the largest part of the brain. They often get injured due to their location at the front of the skull, near rough, bony skull ridges. The frontal lobe handles:
A frontal lobe injury can affect those functions.
These are on either side of the brain, at the level of your ears, stretching from around the eyes to almost the back of the skull. The temporal lobes handle:
Damage to these areas can affect the ability to hear, speak, and understand words, or even recognize a familiar person’s face.
They are located behind the frontal lobe at the top of the back of the brain. The parietal lobes:
Injury to the parietal lobes can make it impossible to locate parts of your body or even recognize them.
This is located at the lower back of the brain. It helps us see and recognize shapes and colors. Injury to this area can cause problems with sight, including distortions of size, color, and shape.
This area of the lower back of the brain controls:
An injured cerebellum can cause loss of these functions, including loss of muscle tone and an inability to walk properly.
This is a tiny area inside the midbrain helping us:
Damage to this area can affect these functions, including sex drive, sleep, and emotions.
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Located within the brain behind the eyes, the pituitary gland is important to our overall well-being and handles hormone release and regulation.
An injured pituitary gland may be revealed in:
This is located in the front part of the temporal lobes. It’s involved in:
An injured amygdala can impair these functions. It may damage memory, learning, and emotional sensitivity, and can cause depression and anxiety.
This is located in the middle of the temporal lobes. It’s involved in:
Damage to the hippocampus can harm these functions, plus impair mood and create confusion and disorientation.
This is located at the bottom of the brain. It’s made of three parts: the midbrain, pons, and medulla. It maintains basic involuntary functions necessary to survive, like:
It’s also involved in alertness and sensation. A damaged brain stem can be highly threatening, even lethal.
If you or someone you love has a brain injury, your life is complicated and confusing enough. Confronting the legal and insurance system on your own will only make it worse. Insurance companies make a lot of money taking advantage of people like you, who just want to get one more problem behind them so they can move to the next one.
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