Emotional Processing for Brain Injuries

In a sample of family members of patients with brain injuries, there were no significant associations between genetic influences and family size in this unselected sample of patients with brain injuries. This conclusion was shared by both men and women. It remains to be determined whether there are specific factors that may be responsible for the sex difference.

Brain injuries, which can include, but are not limited to, traumatic, ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke, traumatic encephalitis, multiple sclerosis and progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy can cause a wide variety of disorders, including intellectual disability, dementia or schizophrenia if left untreated.\n

Neurological signs of brain injuries include decreased level of consciousness, decreased level of eye movement, and seizures. These can occur with severe brain injury or may be seen months after brain injury has been sustained. Seizures occur as part of the medical conditions associated with penetrating trauma or from head injury. Seizures also occur with brain tumor and with some drugs (such as anticonvulsants), so it can be difficult to tell if you have had a seizure or had just a high seizure. A person's signs and symptoms of a brain injury, such as seizure activity, will look different in each victim.

Based on ICD-9-CM-CM, 9% of all US hospital discharge codes with a principal diagnosis of brain injury have a secondary diagnosis for intracerebral hemorrhage and subdural hematoma, while other brain injury causes totaled 1.2% of all brain injury diagnoses.

Severe brain injuries are very different from mild brain injuries. Severe brain injuries are typically caused by external objects, whereas mild injuries are generally thought to be caused by the sudden application of force. Results from a recent clinical trial provides an updated understanding of the causes of brain trauma.

Most commonly treated brain injuries include headache, vomiting, seizures, and psychosis. Antisense medications (both in vitro and as in vivo), neuroleptic medications, surgery, and medical therapies are commonly used, though not all available protocols are supported by high-quality evidence.

The current research establishes that in our study, the long-term results of an experimental treatment can be significantly enhanced if a pre-existing brain injury is present. Thus, in the presence of one brain injury the results of the treatment in the second injury in our model were significantly improved compared with the control situation.

New treatments are emerging for non-traumatic brain injury (NBI) and some are being tested in clinical trials. They seem to be underused, since many people with NBI go to their doctors unnecessarily and receive unnecessary treatments; so the health-care system must update its treatment guidelines so that these new treatments will be more widely available, [with the support of the NIH]. If you have had a TBI that caused you a long, disabling disability, you should probably get treatment for a non-TNBI to see if the improvements in the function of your brain will help.

Findings suggest that the emotional processing intervention significantly enhanced the QoL of patients with traumatic brain injury and increased their willingness to engage in their day-to-day activities more positively..

Given the lack of any significant and statistically significant differences between the group with and without the treatment, the researchers concluded that there is no scientific proof that the method is more effective in the treatment of CII, but they confirmed the therapeutic effect of emotional processing.

The most important determinants of brain injury incidence in a community sample were gender, age, and pre-existing conditions, but we did not observe an association between injury incidence and pre-existing conditions, the presence of a chronic condition, preexisting psychiatric disorders, or alcohol or marijuana abuse. Given that the risk of brain injury is increasing, clinicians should be aware of the importance of detecting and addressing pre-existing conditions, use of alcohol and marijuana, and psychiatric disorders in the primary care setting.