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The Importance of Oxygen in Healing Traumatic Brain Injuries [part 1]

3 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube talk by Dr. Don Wood arguing that low oxygen delivery to the brain can produce symptoms resembling depression after traumatic brain injury. The speaker uses a personal example (his son) to illustrate how reduced oxygen impairs executive function and leads to overwhelm and inaction.

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People with traumatic brain injuries, and if they're suffering with a lot of what looks like depression may just be coming from the way the mind is not getting enough oxygen. So, for example, with my son, I can explain. If you had asked him to clean up his room, for example, he would look at that and be so overwhelmed that he would just say, no, I can't do that. Why was he overwhelmed? Because he didn't have enough oxygen going to the parts of his brain that would do the executive functioning to figure out how to do.