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New TBI study about cognitive fatigue

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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/153677.php

 

Although I wish they'd have gone into detail about the possible cause of cognitive fatigue (in patients with TBI), it's still an interesting study.

Essentially, cognitive fatigue is one of the most challenging symptoms of TBI and they've had problems measuring it really accurately until they started using function MRI. Basically, when they studied people with TBI and people without it doing the same behavioral tasks, the ones with TBI showed increased brain activity - which means their brains were working harder.

Now that they can see this, they will start looking for the best methods to train the brains of people with TBI (and stroke, MS, etc.) Then they can do more fMRIs to confirm what's working. 

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BJameson 5 pts

TBI is an injury, not too unlike a broken arm or sprained ankle. There is actual physical damage: broken blood vessels, sheared axons, etc. When that arm comes out of the cast, it has suffered some degree of muscle atrophy and is not nearly as strong as it once was. It tires easily when trying to perform.

The brain is the same way. Cognitive problems, for the most part, stem from the ever-present memory problems. It takes time and strategies to reroute or rebuild memories that improve cognition.

Beth Jameson
( http://blog.brain-injury-online.com/ )

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