When can a person start driving again after sustaining a TBI?
Driving requires a myriad of skills and integration of complex information in very rapid order. In, addition to the visual acuity needed, an individual must have intact perceptual skills, e.g., the ability to judge distances between cars, space in parking lots, interpret very complicated visual information and all this while operating a rapidly moving vehicle. When damage occurs in the frontal lobes of the brain (executive thinking) residual deficits can impair judgment, reasoning, reaction time, planning and organizational skills, impulse control, and decision making skills all of which are essential to safely operate a moving vehicle.
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