This is a short summary of the study in the link above and my perspective of the research done at the Toronto Rehab. The study shows how brain injury or trauma can directly affect a woman’s health. There are many effects brain trauma can have on women such as fertility, child bearing, and further more postpartum depression.
The results from professors at the Toronto rehab seam almost shocking. Although I found that the main topic directly relates to things we have been discussing in class, brain injury causing disputes in parts of the body that seam unrelated. In my opinion to come to this conclusion in this study researchers would have had to study these women’s limbic systems to determine each individual’s emotions, physical drives and sexual drives. Researchers would also have to study each woman’s hypothalamus and the endocrine system which controls the hormones released to the organs of the body such as a women’s ovaries. Researchers would also need to study each individual’s cerebral cortex to get information on how these women are able to make decisions. Researchers need all of this evidence to come to the conclusion on how a TBI would effect a woman’s ability to get pregnant, reasons why they would have fewer children and why they may have more postpartum problems.
I think the researchers should have showed in more detail how they came to the conclusion they did and the experiments used. I think all of the women in this study would need to have been able to conceive prior to their head injury to conclusively come to these results. I think this study is every important to give us more light on women reproductive health and also more information on postpartum depression
This was a very informative article. I had no idea that womens reproductive cycle could be affected so much by a brain injury. I think researchers and psychologists should find out more about the brain and what it does. I think that we should know before an injury happens.
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