Intro Lecture Powerpoint - McCausland Center For Brain Imaging
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Introduction: Traumatic Brain Injury
Chris Rorden
– Overview of course
– Motivation and Significance of Topic
– Basic terms and anatomy
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Brain function
Brain functions are both distributed and modular.
Modular: focal injury can lead to specific impairment.
– E.G. Lanugage deficits typically seen after left but not right hemisphere
injury.
Distributed: large network involved
– Damage to any nodes or white matter tracts lead to eye movement
deficits.
Knock on effects: damage to one node degrades performance
upstream.
– Damage to V1 effectively disables V2.
Disconnection syndromes:
– Damage to white matter sufficient to disable intact cortex.
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Regeneration
Peripheral nervous system
can exhibit profound
rehabilitation.
In general, CNS neurons do
not regenerate, though glial
cells often do.
Neurons can exhibit dendritic
sprouting.
Changes in neurotransmitters
and blood flow also play a
role.
Rivers and Head ~1908
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Plasticity
The brain is often able to compensate in response to
small injuries.
Most rehabilitation aims to leverage this.
Plasticity effects are age related, typically younger
individuals show better effects.
Plasticity also changes with time. Injury and recovery
often exhibits a characteristic time course.
Plasticity is typically a good thing, but not always.
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Types of Injury
Focal versus Diffuse.
– Focal refers to discrete spatial extent,
for example TBI due to mechanical force
(vulnerable regions) or stroke due to
blockage (ischemic).
– Diffuse refers to widespread injury to
many regions. For example TBI due
shearing of white matter or stroke due to
bleeding (hemorrhagic).
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TBI
TBI classification remains vague.
Mild injuries much more common.
Severe
Moderate
Mild
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Classification
GCS: Glasgow Coma Scale
PTA: Post traumatic Amnesia
LOC: Loss of consciousness
Mild TBI Terms
– Complicated mTBI: injury visible in brain scan
– Postconcussion injury: long term deficits
– Concussion: mTBI ~ brain clearly injured, typically
full functional recovery. Permanent injury debated
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Immediate and long term effects of TBI
Contusion (bruising) results in
increased cranial pressure. Brain can
herniate. Life or death situation.
TBI also associated with latent
effects. Often symptoms get worse
with time.
Epilepsy (recurrent seizures) can
begin months after injury.
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TBI and age
TBI most common in young and old.
Classic ‘Bathtub’ function.
Children run into things, do not attend well
Adolescents drive cars and are often addled by
testosterone.
Older individuals often fall.
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Reporting findings
How do we describe anatomy to
others?
– We could use anatomical names, but
often hard to identify.
– We could use Brodmann’s Areas,
but this requires histology – not
suitable for invivo research.
Both show large between-subject
variability.
Requires anatomical coordinate
system.
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Ambiguous Coordinates
D
Rat
C
R
Human brain rotated relative
to spine
Ambiguous dimenstions
– Dorsal/ventral
– Rostral/caudal
V
D
Unambiguous dimensions
Human
R
C
R
D
V
V
C
– Head/Foot
– Superior/Inferior
– Anterior/Posterior
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Anatomy – Common Terms
Posterior <> Anterior
coronal
Posterior <> Anterior
Inferior <> Superior
lateral < medial > lateral
axial
Radiological convention: Left on right side
Neurological convention: Left on left side
sagittal
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Brain Coordinates
On Earth: North, South, East and West.
– 0˚N/S explicitly defined by spheres rotation (equator).
– 0˚E/W arbitrary (Greenwich by convention).
For brain: Left/Right, Sup./Inf., Ant./Post.
– Origin of L/R explicitly defined (brain symmetry)
– Origin of S/I and A/P arbitrary.
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Coordinates - Talairach
Anterior Commissure (AC) is the origin for
neuroscience.
– We measure distance from AC
57x-67x0 means ‘right posterior middle’.
Three values: left-right, posterior-anterior, ventral-dorsal
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Recognizing the cortical lobes
Cortical lobes: Frontal, Parietal, Occipital Temporal, Insula.
N.B. Cerebellum and subcortical gray matter.
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The major sulci
Postcentral easy to find: becomes intraparietal.
Precentral easy to find- attached to superior frontal.
Between these is the Central (Rolandic).
Sylvian (lateral) fissure
Interhemispheric fissure
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Major sulci
You can usually find the central suclus’ motor
hand area (omega shape on axial slice)
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Gyri and sulci
Naming of most gyri (ridges) and sulci (valleys)
follows simple pattern of position (superior,
middle, inferior) and lobe name.