Will a severe head injury cause someone's personality to change or become more a!
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With a head injury, in adults, deadlines are missed, jobs are lost, savings dwindle and nerves fray. Behavior regresses and becomes upredictable, unreliable, frequently inappropriate, and sometimes violent, role reversals are common. While only one family member may have sustained a brain injury the entire family suffers from its massive intrusion.
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Some head injuries result in prolonged or non-reversible brain damage. This can occur as a result of bleeding inside the brain or forces that damage the brain directly. These more serious head injuries may cause changes in personality, emotions, or mental abilities.
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If you have a severed head injury, your personality will change. Without a body, everything is different.
Yes, head injuries can have some strange consequences. Memory loss, personality changes, etc. Have you looked on webmd.com? They would probably have more technical information.
Personality can change if the frontal lobe of the brain becomes damaged. Do some research on "Fineous Gage". He is an example studied by psychologists.
I would think that it could.
Depending on the location and severity of the injury, different types of behavioral disturbances can occur. These include irritability, lability, impulsivity, disinhibition, aggression, poor motivation, poor self-regulation of behavior, poor judgement and insight, risk taking, or sexual disturbances. Certain of these symptoms are separated out for purposes of discussing assessment and treatment, but clinically, they often occur together, as in a more generalized frontal lobe syndrome. Aggression can occur following brain injury, particularly in the more acute stages, and cause significant disruption of rehabilitation efforts. It can range from mild verbal abusiveness to physical assaultiveness. It is important to characterize the aggressive behavior. Is the patient labile? Is the patient impulsive and unable to self regulate? Is there a mood change associated with the behavior? What are the triggers? Is the aggression against self, others, or objects? A thorough evaluation of the behavior is needed. Only then can an appropriate behavioral strategy and possibly pharmacologic intervention be instituted. Behavioral strategies are beyond the scope of this review, but can be very helpful.
Aggression is a symptom that can have a variety of underlying causes. For example, if it is part of a frontal lobe syndrome, then the treatment may be different than for aggression resulting from psychosis, mood disturbance, or seizure disorder. This is often not obvious, and treatment may be trial and error. Polypharmacy (the use of more than one medication) may be unavoidable in the complex patient, and it is best to obtain a consultation
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http://ccm.psych.uic.edu/Research/TBI/TBIinfo.htm
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