What areas of the brain are damaged in traumatic brain injury (TBI)?
Truly, any part of the brain can be damaged in TBI. That being said, there are areas that are more likely to get damaged than others. Most of the people in our study had damage that included the frontal lobes, but we did not have more specific information about where their damage was. It is not unusual for damage from TBI to include the frontal lobes. Here, I (V. Stone) am just going to quote from the Wikipedia article on TBI, because I’ve contribted to that. “Damage from TBI can be focal (confined to specific areas) or diffuse (distributed in a more general manner). However, it is common for both focal and diffuse injury to exist in moderate to severe cases of TBI. Types of injuries considered diffuse include edema (swelling) and “diffuse axonal injury”, which is widespread damage to axons, the connective fibers that allow brain cells to communicate with each other. Focal injuries often produce symptoms related to the functions of the damaged area. Research shows that the most common
