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.