Who Suffers From Head Trauma?
What Are the Cognitive and Communication Problems That Result From Traumatic Brain Injury? How Are the Cognitive and Communication Problems Assessed? How Are the Cognitive and Communication Problems Treated? What Research Is Being Done? Where Can I Get Additional Information? What Is Traumatic Brain Injury? Traumatic brain injury is sudden physical damage to the brain. The damage may be caused by the head forcefully hitting an object such as the dashboard of a car (closed head injury) or by something passing through the skull and piercing the brain, as in a gunshot wound (penetrating head injury). The major causes of head trauma are motor vehicle accidents. Other causes include falls, sports injuries, violent crimes, and child abuse. The physical, behavioral, or mental changes that may result from head trauma depend on the areas of the brain that are injured. Most injuries cause focal brain damage, damage confined to a small area of the brain. The focal damage is most often at the poin
