Types of Brain Injury

Types of brain injury are classed by source of the injury and nature of the damage. Classifications of types of brain injury by cause include Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Acquired Brain Injury (ABI). TBI covers types of brain injury caused by external force, affecting consciousness and resulting in disturbance of behavioral or emotional functioning. Types of brain injury caused by cellular level damage (usually due to insufficient oxygen) are ABI, although TBI types of brain injury are also a subgroup of ABI, and the two terms are often used interchangeably. Many types of brain injury cause lasting difficulties with mood, memory, learning, cognitive skills and concentration.

TBI-categorized types of brain injury result from car accidents, falls, violence, recreational injuries, electrocutions and blows to the head. Some types of brain injury in the TBI category may lack outward evidence, such as whiplash and shaken babies. Traumatic types of brain injury include concussion, and severe, moderate, and minor head injuries. The most dangerous types of brain injury result from severe head injuries, where the skull is crushed/fractured and the brain is penetrated. Types of brain injury this severe generally cannot be completely repaired and return to pre-injury status is rare. Lesser types of brain injury usually have markedly better prognoses, but results vary widely from case to case.

Those types of brain injury classified as ABI cover brain tissue damage caused by strokes, tumors, anoxia/hypoxia, toxins, and disease. Types of brain injury in the ABI category differ from TBI because they can affect the entire brain. (Traumatic types of brain injury are generally localized in areas corresponding to the location of the head injury.) Non-traumatic types of brain injury often mean that damage is more widespread, but both types can have equally severe consequences.

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