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I recently suffered a brain injury that included right occipital and basal ganglia damage, but I don't have any vision problems. What's the deal with that? I researched it and occipital damage usually means vision problems.
 
The "occipital lobe" is a fairly large area. Can you provide any further details about the specifics of the location or nature of the damage?

ebola
 
There are three possibilities that I can think of:

1) You damaged an area that doesn't process visual information

2) You damaged an area that processes visual information, but the left hemisphere is able to compensate for the damage on the right

3) You damaged an area that processes visual information, but the deficit is so subtle that you just haven't noticed it yet

If you can get more precise anatomical coordinates we could speculate a bit further, but it's unlikely that we can tell you anything more than your doctors already have. Great to see you on your way to recovery by the way.
 
Traumatic brain injuries take a while to manifest. I had a TBI in my lower right hemisphere and it surprised me when it did manifest, in amphetamine psychosis visual cues would be a major part to the terror.
Did you get knocked out at all? treat the injury? etc
 
so with the basal ganglia have you got any movement issues?

its impossible to predict just to what extent a person will be affected by damage to their brain as everyone is different and each injury is unique and at the same time age and neuroplasticity will play a huge factor in compensatory mechanisms and recovery prognosis
 
^Yeah. I was all but paralyzed a few months ago. Now I'm a little wobbly.


DJHENRU said:
Traumatic brain injuries take a while to manifest. I had a TBI in my lower right hemisphere and it surprised me when it did manifest, in amphetamine psychosis visual cues would be a major part to the terror.
Did you get knocked out at all? treat the injury? etc
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I didn't know that. And I was in a coma for a month.

And I'm on Keppra.
 
visual information is processed in your primary visual cortex(striatum), which is a small part of your occipital lobe, if you don't have visual problems, then it didn't affect the stiatum, your're lucky. Sorry that you actually had damage to your brain, that sucks.
 
so with the basal ganglia have you got any movement issues?
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Unfortunately, the basal ganglia is also involved in the initiation and execution of oft complex chains of thought (and learning such), particularly those routine and 'habitual' (in this way, cognition is production of strings of mental movements).
Good luck on your recovery!

ebola
 
The occipital lobe has many different areas within this area delegated for specific processing tasks the occipital lobe breaks up into several visual cortexes called V1 V2 etc... some are used in processing the raw details gathered from the rods and cones and processed further in these areas..edges, lines even faces. Occipital dmg is a broad umbrella term. As damage to one area could affect your motion detecting abilities. Others your ability to see and recognize familiar faces. I would recommend researching visual agnosias more and testig one self. Like Ebola said. The basal ganglia affects goal initiation..the carot om a stick...once a goal is selected like going to get pot. The pleasure of picking up motivates you to go get it. Thats your BG talking to you.
 
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