Thank you for the explanation, Mark. I know see that this has a few things involved in the brain...

How is it that we're in 2015 and relatively simple injury such as a head injury doesn't even have any basic treatment? Rest isn't treatment. We have so many treatments for diseases, but not to a concussion? It's a shame that our medicine looks like that right now.

Probably because it's complicated by the fact that a *syndrome* is basically a group or cluster of different symptoms that can occur at the same time. It doesn't mean we all have the same symptoms.

I'm not feeling well enough to read the entire thread tonight, but my understanding is that there are sharp bones inside your skull behind your forehead. When you get a concussion, it is normal for these to stab your prefrontal cortex. I think that this is why we get worse impulse and attentional control.

I also have read that this area of the brain controls your "pause and plan" response, which is in opposition to the flight or flight stress response. If that is true, then having difficulty moderating stress responses might be expected.

Sources:

Make your Brain Smarter, by Dr. Chapman
Willpower Instinct, by Dr. McGonigal

I still have the same struggles with stress 2 years after my concussion - I was just wondering - does it matter what part of the brain took the main whack?

I fell on my back so the first part of my brain to hit was the front - and the front seems to still have the most problems with pain as well as an increase of pain in stressful situations.

GB

The issues are far more complex that just what part of the head sustained the impact.