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Comprehensive Summary of Unit 3 General Effects of Brain Injury: Reflection on the Soul

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This pdf contains 7 condensed yet comprehensive summaries explaining traumatic head injury, mechanisms of impact during injury, penetrating head injury, closed head injury, assessing severity of brain injury, complications of brain injury (oedema, herniation, skull fractures, posttraumatic epilepsy) and mild head injury. These notes are ideal for revision before tests and for use as study notes for neuropsychology.

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after the patient is stablised the
neuropsych would perform
neuropsychological assessments to
determine what functions and processing
abilities have been affected by the brain
injury

they would then also provide rehabilitation



damaging the brain directly

disrupting blood supply

inducing bleeding

increased cranial pressure and swelling this
opening brain to infection

scarring brain tissue which can become a
focus for later epileptic seizures




family members of the victim also benefit these changes are noticed by those closest
from working with a neuropsychologist to the victim

, this exceeds the normal tissue
extendability particulary along the
we are specifically looking at the axon and
cell body



pathological mechanism/pathomechanism =
mechanism by which pathological conditions
occur the axon is very vulnerable to force
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