PSY345H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Traumatic Brain Injury, Brainstem, Mantra
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Open head injuries there is some sort of penetration to the skull- opened damaged cracked , bleeding fracture, see something went wrong, clearly identifiable like any other external injury. Skull fibres get stretched people in coma likely brain injury and other methods too. Congential brain injury (born with it) brain did not develop. Degenerative brain injury parkisnosn , hungtingtion , etc this is rapid aging of brain happens to individuals in 40"s clear degenerative neurological disorders seen as brain injuries. Other forms of non traumatic brain injury may be due to disaseas or poisoning weapson of mass destruction etc these would be acquire and non of the above eg menegitis. *bike (helmets) not wearing a helmet major cause for injury and highly preventable. *work accidents (helmets, safety precautions) every work site will have signs to already ppl of helmets and safety precautions eg crains falling not properly secured .
