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Diffuse traumatic brain injury and the sensory brain
Author(s) -
Alwis Dasuni S,
Johnstone Victoria,
Yan Edwin,
Rajan Ramesh
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
clinical and experimental pharmacology and physiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1440-1681
pISSN - 0305-1870
DOI - 10.1111/1440-1681.12100
Subject(s) - sensory system , neuroscience , cognition , sensory processing , traumatic brain injury , sensory cortex , cortex (anatomy) , psychology , brain damage , medicine , psychiatry
Summary In this review we discuss the consequences to the brain's cortex, specifically to the sensory cortex, of traumatic brain injury. The thesis underlying this approach is that long‐term deficits in cognition seen after brain damage in humans are likely underpinned by an impaired cortical processing of the sensory information needed to drive cognition or to be used by cognitive processes to produce a response. We take it here that the impairment to sensory processing does not arise from damage to peripheral sensory systems, but from disordered brain processing of sensory input.