Brain injuries and cognitive psychology

  • How does trauma affect the cognitive brain?

    The emotional experience of psychological trauma can have long-term cognitive effects.
    The hallmark symptoms of PTSD involve alterations to cognitive processes such as memory, attention, planning, and problem solving, underscoring the detrimental impact that negative emotionality has on cognitive functioning..

  • What are the cognitive issues with head injuries?

    Problems with memory, particularly short-term and 'working memory', are common after brain injury.
    Some people may be unable to remember faces or names, or what they have read or what has been said to them..

  • Cognitive therapy, also called cognitive rehabilitation therapy, is a kind of brain injury rehabilitation program focused on improving areas of cognition, such as memory, attention, problem solving, organization, executive function skills, and word finding.Mar 14, 2023
  • Many people with brain injury report cognitive impairments to be more debilitating than physical deficits.
    People who have a brain injury may experience retrograde and/or anterior grade amnesia.
    Retrograde amnesia means you have lost memories for events prior to the accident.
  • Overview.
    Major or Mild Neurocognitive Disorder due to Traumatic Brain Injury is a neuropsychological disorder characterised by neurocognitive impairments.
    These impairments are caused due to blunt trauma to the head in such a way that it displaces the brain within the skull, or blast injuries.
Individuals with brain injuries may lack self-con- trol and self-awareness, and as a result they may behave inappropriately or impulsively (without thinking it through) in social situations. They may deny they have cognitive problems, even if these are obvious to others.

What are the symptoms of traumatic brain injury (TBI)?

Someone with TBI, even if medically stable, is likely to experience subsequent symptoms ranging from physical (headache, fatigue, and visual/auditory sensitivity) to cognitive (deficits in memory, attention, concentration, and executive function) and emotional (depression, anxiety) symptoms [ 1 ].

What is mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI)?

Neuropsychologia. 2009;47 (14):3210–6. pmid:19664646 Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), or concussion, is the most common type of traumatic brain injury.
With mTBI comes symptoms that include:

  • headaches
  • fatigue
  • depression
  • anxiety and irritability
  • as well as impaired cognitive function.

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