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Frequently Asked Medical Questions - Common concerns surrounding brain injury, from the Brain Injury Association of the USA
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What is Brain Injury - Description of brain injury from the Brain Injury Association of the USA
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The Family and Traumatic Brain Injury - Many more medical abstracts about this crucial matter find by clicking 'related articles' at the top right corner of this article.
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Search Medical Abstracts - In the blank search space, type "frontal lobe injury", then click the Go button. A list of medical research abstracts about frontal lobe injury will appear. Roy sustained a severe bi-lateral orbital frontal lobe brain injury, with a right temporal lobe lesion also visible on the MRI, and diffuse axonal injury. These abstracts will help you better understand why a brain injury affected Roy, since some of you voiced a desire to understand or ignorance about it. The full articles are available through your local medical library.
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Excellent summation of Frontal Lobe psychopathology - Please be sure to read this.
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Anger and temper outbursts- a serious problem after brain injury - This is about brain injury aggression and a useful drug. Interesting research. Roy could not take this because of his brain injury caused seizure disorder, though.
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Frontal lobe lesions increase the risk of aggressive and violent behavior - Pointed description of the behavior Roy exhibited after his brain injury. Anyone with his type of injury acts like this, including you if you had the same type and severity of brain injury Roy had.
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These describe Frontal Lobe Injury effects - These articles will help you understand how Roy's frontal lobe injury effected him.
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These explain verywell another common behavior of Roy's after his type of injury - And as with all the abstracts here, the full articles can be retrieved from your medical library.
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How to Rehab those with TBI - Abstracts of presentations to the NIH Consensus Development Conference on the Rehabilitation of Persons With Traumatic Brain Injury. They were designed for the use of panelists and participants in the conference and as a reference document for anyone interested in the conference deliberations.
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Lithium - Lithium information in simple terms. Roy began taking this one month before he died, for his anger and aggression that he had after his brain injury.Prior to his injury, he was not like this. Nor did he have seizures. I'm providing these links to help you better understand why a brain injury affected Roy, since some of you voiced a desire to understand or ignorance about it. For more info on this drug, see - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/uspdi/202330.html
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Dilantin - Dilantin (phenytoin) information in easy to understand terms. Roy began taking this after his first episode of seizures, also a result of his brain injury. His seizure disorder was status epilepticus type only. It was well controlled on 430 mg of this medication. For a more detailed description of Dilantin, see - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/uspdi/202052.html
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