Dr. James Kelly Talks About Areas of the Brain Affected by Concussion

After having my the back of my head hit a wooden floor extremely hard a year ago, I feel I have memory issues. After it happened, immediately I was sick, dizzy, unstable etc. For about a month after, I had issues turning my head at all. For one it hurt and two i got dizzy and sick. I didn't see a doctor due the way it happened. Now over a year later, I find I don't remember things like i used to, mind feels foggy a lot (not all the time), that spot bothers me sometimes (not like palpating it) just in general and somethings short term I remember and others I don't. I'm leary of going to a doctor now. I'm guessing I had a severe head injury and still have effects from it. Will it get better or worse? I am writing things down, making reminders etc.

I had brain cancer on the right side of my head above my right ear close to my eyebrows where we took out a tumor that was lemon size what effects does that have on me.

My face went splat to the road so my head didn't twist as the doc described so his talk negates my injury

I'm a 34 y/o female with treatment-resistant depression and OCD. I got a medically-diagnosed concussion last week in which I hit my face below my right eye on a hardwood nightstand.

For some reason, my mood and energy/anxiety levels have actually improved since the accident. This goes against everything I've read and learned about concussion. My psych doc is amazed but even my family has commented on the improvement in my mood. I'm hoping it sticks around, even though my memory and balance are much worse now. Even more amazing is this is the time of year my depression and fatigue are always at their worst but now I feel NONE of that.

Curious what specific brain area I might've damaged in the impact? The frontal/temporal lobes include lots of sub-areas like the orbitofrontal cortex, which has been implicated in OCD and looks like it's right around the area I bonked. This is so fascinating to me and I wish someone could at least speculate with me (though I know it would be just that--speculation). I've tried 23 psych meds in my life to no avail so this is kind of a big deal. Really hoping it's not temporary, as bad as that sounds.

Thanks.

i've been hit in the head from a person kicking a ball too high to the side of my head. i blacked out and it felt like i possessed my brain. my brain floated side to side like ping pong. i heard ringing noises. i open my eyes in blurry vision to barely hear the female in front of me that was probably talking to me ask was i okay. i don't remember what happened after PE that day. can you please tell me, what scientifical parts of my brain are damaged?

Hello Dr. Kelly, I have been trying to get a very simple answer from the neurologists that I have been working with , but I cant seem to get one... After just watching your video I know now others have had a similiar effect. Okay this past April I came home from work around 4pm on Friday, Next thing I wake up at my daughters house on Sunday evening with no recollection of what happened. I have never experienced any type of black out or loss of memory. if anything its the opposite. I asked my daughter what happened she told me that I got to her house saturday afternoon with the dog. I told her friday when i got home i went down in the bathrrom hitting the front of my forehead on athe cement sink. I was in a total state of confusion Dr. I couldnt process what had happened to me. My daughter kept saying go to the hosptal and usually I am the first one to know when to go I wouldnt...5 days later I finally go not grasping what happened i felt confused! the ER did A CT and MRI .. images showed Severe concussion and Subdural hematoma. I was dischaarged which I couldnt beleive that. They gave me a neurologist to see... Now say one month after the fall, I was suffering with really bad migtaines. I also broke 2 teeth so my mouth was in pain along with neck pain . I think I tightned up falling.. I also was having short term memory loss.. Long term was fine. It was frusterating at times I couldnt get words out that I knew I wanted to say.. Little by Little things got clearer, memory starting to return, but I or as you put in the video my personality changed and still is.. At this moment I am 7 months after. I am recalling allot of events from my life scences very traumatic ones. Losses and its like I am watching a little clip on TV. I watchimg this younger version of me suffer in such emotional pain and I wang to help her.. But I cant.. i feel like being able to do that I healed allot.. This opened up a whole new part of the brain and that "socitys point of view" shut down! Couldnt be happier. I picked up my Baton after 30 years and play around with all the time now. I went to dancing school from 6-18. I loved it. I also work out daily or try to daily like I did back then,. I am finally learning to speak up for myself.. My mother used to say I was a people pleaser. Thats all gone. I am very blunt now and I do not let anyone put my new hobbies down..What once I cried and foumd to be so sad and tragic I know laugh about. Now I never liked science I am more spirituality. However with this part of my brain that is active I am now on youtube watching videos by Rubert Sheldrake.,, readinbg parrellel universes, etc..My vocabulary has highly increased with all these terms and big words I am now using. I want to mention that I explained to my my daughters that I am reborn! I always have had a very strong faith in God. I have many tramatic experiences that showed if it wasnt for God I wouldnt have made it and my idetical twin daughters would have not made it. The doctors told me there was no way they would . They will be 21 this month. ANd each day I feel more and more different. I no longer go by socitys view. I dont care if peoplpe beleive me or not . You most certaintly can tell Im different. I am now into meditaion., crystal healing. Sun charging and more natural; ways to deal with medical issues. The doctors dont like that... I am trying to get an appointment with one of the best ever neurosurgeons in Boston... I wanted him to do a brain scan to see what the hematoma looks like now. Also we have a spiritual issue with the whole brain here.. 22 years ago in 1998 my mother out of no where at 61 was diagnosed with a GBM she died 6 months later, i was tramatized. my brother died 8 years prior and my father when I was a baby. Now at 25 I was all alone. Aprill of 1999 I conceived spontaneuos idetical twin girls! What a blessing, I was giving my family back all at once i felt. The Harvard doctors tried to get me to terminated saying they would be totally handicapped thats if they made it. Well I made it to 29 weeks. They were 11 weeks early and one of my daughter had a subdural hematoma. which resulted in a minor form of Cerebral Pasly. My twins will be 21 this month. Thank God I didnt listen to those doctors... Now Dr. Kelly My mother, my daughter, and myself brains were all affected in the same location. I am becoming a new person. Abilities that we possess that most never have access to are opening in my brain. The doctors dont want to say how it is very possible this could be happening. But of course they have nothing to go by from the past. Also they oppose my spiritual beleifs. Well I dont care 3 of us having brain hemmorages in the same location. I am sure they dont have anything to compare it to...

hello Dr. Thank you for this video. I just found it. My mtbi happened 2007 from car accident. I hit the steering wheel. Thirteen years later I have improved. I have to plan my own health plan. The neuro drs. I saw wouldn't acknowledge I have a brain injury. Also no support from anywhere or anyone. I have a strong spirit hope and now faith.

Thank you for explaining the effects of concussions‼️My 15 year old granddaughter experienced one after a game of water polo. It has lasted over 4 wks.

I’m currently 16 bout to turn 17 in a couple months & I recently had a TBI. I fell off the trunk of a friends car and landed on my right side of the head and bounced on the back of my head. I had a subdural hematoma with three brain bleeds and a fractured skull. It was an emergency brain surgery and had a craniotomy performed. I flew in a helicopter with little of consciousness & went to another location to have a surgery. The doctors said there was massive pressure in my brain and half of my butterfly was gone because of it. The brain bleed took more than half of my brain. I’m a month and some weeks in recovery but do not remember the 2 -3 weeks after. Once my 3 week mark hit I was able to be more aware of my surroundings and able to walk. My surgeon was afraid of brain damage but walked out with none. It took a while at first for me to be able to speak, walk, and eat. I get nauseous, dizzy, and have huge headaches internally and externally from my skull. I have neck spasms due to me wearing a neck brace , the trauma, and my fracture. My fracture missed my spine by an inch. It’s a very emotional, mental, and physical obstacle to pass through. Whoever needs to read it , it will surpass. The surgeon called me a miracle and had warned my family previous to surgery of being in a coma, death, or severe brain damage. Thankfully, neither of those occurred. You will get through this!

I was hit from behind while stopped at a red light. The damage suggests 60+ mph. I am told I was out of it for a minute and wailed. I was hit in the area behind my left ear by a water fountain My husband and I had purchased. At the ER I was told I was fine. I was give 5 days of pain pills. On the 6th day, my head hurt so badly I was vomiting. I returned to the ER and was given a ct scan which was normal. I was treated as a drug seeker by the young doctor who prescribed me Hydroxizine and told me to come back if I needed to talk and then gave me her hours that she worked in the ER. My doctor, my back surgeon, all the local doctors refused to help me. I spent the next two days holding my head hoping that it wouldn't explode from the pain. No one believed me that I was hurt. I have a physiatrist and a physical therapist. The physiatrist finally told me that I needed to seek help from a neurologist. I called several of the local neurologist to all declined to see me and that I was in an automobile accident and they do not want to be involved. When I walked away from dinner being cooked on the stove with no memory of starting dinner, I called my GP and told her I needed to see a neurologist. The neurologist didney EEG in August. I was also sent to a psychiatrist who diagnosed me as having psychosomatic memory loss due to stress. The results of my EEG says it is abnormal secondary to settle intermittent left greater than right frontal slowing the finding is suggestive of an underlying structural lesion. It is almost December and the neurologist has not yet seen me to tell me what the findings mean. I can't listen and retain what people say to me. And as best I can tell, no one cares.

My daughter, now 23, has a moderate TBI on February 17, 2017. She had a frontal lobe injury, a bleed in her thalamus, and a small diffuse axonal injury.
Neurosurgeon said her concussion was equal to a football players entire career of concussions.
Her memory is better, she still is quick to anger, and says things she regrets, but she is working, driving, and doing pretty good considering.
Her main complaints are headaches everyday,nothing helps, and feeling nauseous every morning. She has lost considerable weight , and she was very small to begin with..
Any advice would be appreciated, thank you

Accident 39 years ago, in service, received no treatment, migraines and head pain every since. Multiple Neurologists, but I always told them no head trauma because I never knew, don’t remember. I received my military records and found out. Closed head injury and clear TBI. Just dandy. Explains EVERYTHING. pain often in am, upon awakening. I’m livid.

Thank you for your video