Doctors at TIRR Memorial Hermann started to recognize that something was amiss when a patient who suffered a traumatic brain injury asked for a mirror to see his fresh shave. It was an odd request from someone whose eyes had been removed after a devastating plane crash. There were other peculiarities, too. The patient experienced false memories, telling doctors that he’d just been to Germany and back. He displayed little emotion.
Texas girl's rare condition made it painful to put on a sock. Now she can walk a 5K The fact GAABIS is novel was a challenge for the team at TIRR because they didn’t have any guidance on how to treat it, said Dr. Abana Azariah, an assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at UTHealth Houston and an attending physician at TIRR Memorial Hermann. “We sort of all had to work even harder because no one had seen this before. We almost were creating our own protocol,” she said.
Spring girl is thriving after a rare condition required half of her skull to be removed The TIRR team immediately started him on aggressive courses of physical, occupational and speech therapy. They also gave him daily cognitive and orientation tests to assess his brain function. By his eighth week at TIRR, he was able to have a conversation and participate in more complicated assessments.
Memorial Hermann's Peggy Turner honored at Final Four for work with athletes with disabilities The other unique symptom was his flat affect, or lack or emotion. When doctors would confront the man and tell him that he was blind, he would offer indifferent and unemotional responses to the news that his life would be different moving forward.
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