Neurocognitive disorder due to traumatic brain injury

Neurocognitive disorder delinquent to traumatic heading dishonorbloody shame was an extroverted teenager who had a lot of friends. She succumbed to the peer pressure of her friends urging her to completed a very dangerous task. This task was to jump from a arcminute floor balcony down to the swimming pool. bloody shame was a skilled swimmer, all the same she has no defence against such traumatic brain blur. She was placed on life support as a precaution until she tested hale enough in her post traumatic brain exam to be taken off of the additional support. bloody shame seemed to be improving and was presently able to pay back to school. This return to school was not what the teachers, her p arents, or herself expected. She find that in that respect has been some changes to her cognitive abilities and as a result, she is exhibiting a doings that is opposite of how she normally shows herself.Mary was referred to my practice and upon examination of her cognitive and neuro logic history and abilities, it is organism determined that Mary is described with major or soft neurocognitive disorder due to traumatic brain injury. (American Psychiatric Association, 2013) It would be suggested that Mary be watched closely for depression due to the fact that she is already demonstrate some signs of depression. According to DSM 5, major or mild neurocognitive disorder due to traumatic brain injury presents with the signs and symptoms of the condition. (American Psychiatric Association, 2013) The record that Mary shows are that she has had a traumatic brain injury that caused the loss of consciousness and she was deep in thought(p) and confused. The DSM 5 says that the neurocognitive disorder has to be present immediately after the injury has occurred or immediately after waking from an unconscious state and has to tolerate historic the immediate post injury period. (American Psychiatric Association, 2013) Mary woke up in the hospital from loss of conscious ness and was moaning incoherently and was very restless. It is surmise that this is because she did know where she was or what had happened to her. She began to slowly recover and in three weeks was back off in school. The three weeks that she spent at home would take her past the immediate post injury period. It is when she went to school that she showed the signs of world confused and not able to keep up in school bid she did in the gravelning. She state that she was having trouble concentrating and remembering what the teacher had said so that she could take notes as easily as she did before the injury. People that founder suffered from a traumatic brain injury often have signs of emotional disturbances, personality changes, and sensual disturbances which were all present when Mary returned home from school. It is said in the DSM 5 that people that have suffered from a traumatic brain injury cut across more symptoms of depression and can similarly have overlapping sympt oms of posttraumatic stress disorder (post-traumatic stress disorder). (American Psychiatric Association, 2013) The diagnosis of depression or posttraumatic stress disorder is not groundn to Mary at this time because it is unclear at this time if Mary is having the symptoms of depression because of the stress of returning to school and having the stickyies of that she experienced that day. It would be in the best interest of Mary to note that she has symptoms of depression and PTSD and to continue taking notes on these symptoms for six months before this diagnosis is given to her. Another reason depression is not given to her as a diagnosis at this time and to wait for more substantial evidence is because depression is not a seeing conditions. It is more than Mary not wanting to be as outgoing as she was before, not in truth wanting to eat, or not wanting to do the things that she enjoy before the injury. These are all signs of depression but not enough to diagnose the depress ion over a unitary-time occurrence. Depression is evidenced by changes in the brain structure and function. In the center of the brain is where norepinephrine and serotonin modify the brain. A chemical substance substance foreshadow is sent down one nerve cell and passed to another nerve cell across a space called a synapse once the receptors are full. What happens in depression is that when the signal is sent, a lot of the chemical is reabsorbed by the sending cell and recycled by the brain. This is called reuptake, when the signal is sent again, there is a double amount of the chemical that is sent and reuptake occurs again and a lot of the chemical that was releases is impel amodal value by the brain. If you are not releasing enough of the chemical to fill up the receptors on the receiving nerve, it leaves holes in that nerve and symptoms of depression occur. (University of the westward of England, Bristol, 2015) With Mary having a traumatic brain injury and depression being comorbid it makes sense that this could be what is going on with her because the nerves in her brain would have been damaged causing this cycle which leads to depression. According to the Glasgow Coma dentures, Mary would be considered as having moderate traumatic brain injury. The Glasgow Coma Scale ranks the patient in three different categories, eyes, verbal and motor ability. The outperform ranks patients from 3-15 with 3 being the most sever and the worst and 15 being the most mild and the best of stigmatizes. (Muriel Deutsch Lezak, Diane B. owieson, Erin D. Bigler, Daniel Tanel, 2012) Marys initial train of consciousness was an overall 6 when she originally arrived at the hospital. She was speaking incoherently (GCS rates this as a 2), and she was moving restlessly as if she was in pain (GCS rates this as a 4). Upon waking up, Mary scored an overall 10 on the Glasgow Coma Scale with eye movement get ahead 3 (she opened them to sound which would be her best response), ver bal score was 1 (she did not speak when tested), and her motor score was 6 (she travel her finger when asked to do so). Based on this score and the fact that she was in the coma for less than 6 hours gives her a TBI classification of moderate. When she was later examined, Mary had improved quite a bit. Her Coma score was an overall 15 by morning because she could recognize and respond to her parents and she was talking to them.Marys pre-morbid level of functioning is assumed to be towering based on the fact that she performs within the top of her class and is said to excel academically. development the Wechsler Test of Adult Reading, Mary would be asked to pronounce 50 irregularly spelled words and scored according to how closely they were correctly pronounced. (Muriel Deutsch Lezak, Diane B. owieson, Erin D. Bigler, Daniel Tanel, 2012). Due to the report of how advantageously she was doing before her injury, using a previous IQ test and No Child Left Behind this test should be able to give an account of the level of functioning that Mary is at currently. There is also other yearly school assessment tests that can be looked at to assess her pre-injury academic ability. The names of these test can vary depending on the State you are in. Using the WAIS-IV to assess Mary, it would show that her reasoning and wisdom skills are not where they were pre-injury. This test is used to assess the verbal and instruction execution academic ability of a person. This test would let it be seen, the call for areas that Mary is falling short.By using tests that would measure Marys cognitive speed we would be able to see that the damage to her head-on lobe has caused some deficit in her ability to concentrate because this is where the areas of problem solving, memory, and oral communication is stored. By this expound of her brain being damaged during the injury, it makes it more difficult for her to concentrate on what is going on because it takes her longer to process the occupation around her, what is being said, and remembering what was said to her.Recommendations would be for Mary to begin cognitive therapy that would help her to regain the most normal function of this part of her brain. Accommodation for Mary would be very sensitive because she held such high esteem as an honor student, we would not want to make her feel any less, however there are some accommodations that need to be done, at least until she regains full cognitive ability. Marys educators should admit extra time for her to complete assignments and homework. Mary can carry a voice recorder with her that will record the lectures instead of her writing them that way when she studies, she can listen to the lectures and rewind as needed. While Mary may have some lasting effects of her injury, there is no reason a full cognitive and educational recuperation cannot be accomplished.Mary presented at the hospital with a traumatic brain injury three weeks previous to returning to s chool. She has made great accomplishments and cognitive difficulty was not notice until she returned to school. Upon my examination of Mary, she has had some great medical accomplishments and the prognosis of her full recovery is possible. There may be some lasting effects like with most people that have had a traumatic brain injury such as increased headaches, seizure activity, and depression but there is no reason to assume that Mary will have to warp her life any way. With cognitive therapy and temporary educational accommodations Mary should return to her pre-injury educational and cognitive levels.ReferencesAmerican Psychiatric Association. (2013). Neurocognitive disorders . Retrieved from In Diagnostic and statistical manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition http//dsm.psychiatryonline.org.lib.kaplan.edu/doi/full/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596.dsm17CIHEIIICMuriel Deutsch Lezak, Diane B. owieson, Erin D. Bigler, Daniel Tanel. (2012). neuropsychological Assessment. New York Oxford University Press, Inc. .University of the West of England, Bristol. (2015). Synapses and Neurotransmission . 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