Even Easy Brain Concussion Can Lead To Serious Consequences

Even Easy Brain Concussion Can Lead To Serious Consequences.
Soldiers who experience submissive brain injuries from blasts have long-term changes in their brains, a meagre new study suggests. Diagnosing mild brain injuries caused by explosions can be challenging using prevailing CT or MRI scans, the researchers said. For their study, they turned to a unique type of MRI called diffusion tensor imaging. The technology was used to assess the brains of 10 American veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who had been diagnosed with modest traumatizing brain injuries and a comparison group of 10 people without brain injuries.

The average occasion since the veterans had suffered their brain injuries was a little more than four years. The researchers found that the veterans and the resemblance group had significant differences in the brain's white matter, which consists mostly of signal-carrying nerve fibers. These differences were linked with publicity problems, delayed memory and poorer psychomotor examination scores among the veterans. "Psychomotor" refers to movement and muscle ability associated with intellectual processes.

The findings suggest that even mild brain injuries caused by a blast can have long-term effects on the brain, according to the study, which is scheduled to be presented Monday at the annual junction of the Radiological Society of North America, in Chicago. "This long-term striking on the brain may account for ongoing mental and behavioral symptoms in some veterans with a telling of blast-related mild traumatic brain injuries ," study co-author P Tyler Roskos, a neuropsychologist and helper research professor at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine, said in a league news release.

Because this study was presented at a medical meeting, the observations and conclusions should be viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed Dec 2, 2013 journal best vito. The observe results also indicate that diffusion tensor imaging is better than conventional MRI or CT at detecting blast-related yielding traumatic brain injuries - even long after they occurred - and may inform improve diagnosis and treatment of veterans with the condition.