Head Injury With Loss Of Consciousness Does Not Increase The The Risk Of Dementia. Part 3 of 3

So “The dramatic examples of former National Football League players, hockey players and wrestlers who have an unusual illness, unmistakeable by depression, agitation and psychosis are quite different from Alzheimer’s disease patients who tend to be apathetic. Much remains to be discovered about the role of lifelong traumatic brain injury history, including beastliness and nature of torque and other physical factors, and late-life mental decline”.

Another expert, Dr Danny Liang, a neurosurgeon at North Shore-LIJ Cushing Neuroscience Institute in Manhasset, NY, thinks these findings are too exact to say much about the risk of dementia as a result of traumatic brain injury. “The study is restricted to a limited population so it’s hard to extrapolate these findings to other populations. It is also realizable that there were people who had traumatic brain injury who did develop dementia before age 65, so they were not included in the study”. There also was no data on injury severity or duration of unconsciousness female. Brain injuries differ, and canny the severity is important to determine the ultimate outcome.

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