‘Stress can lead to long-term brain injury’

People with stress are 700 per cent more likely to have anxiety, depression, insomnia or memory loss. For people who have already suffered from a traumatic brain injury, stress could be one of the reasons for it to become a long-term injury, Maulik P Purohit, Chief of Medical Services and Research- Neurorehabilitation and Traumatic Brain Injury, said.

Delivering the Appa Rao Lecture here on Sunday, Dr. Purohit said, “For people who have suffered from brain injury, more than a third of them have sleep apnea, over 97 per cent have subjective sleep complaints, 85 per cent of them have fatigue during the day and 54 per cent suffer from sleep fragmentation”.

The lack of sleep and a disrupted sleep cycle will further increase stress, he said, adding that integrated therapies including yoga and meditation were now increasingly being prescribed by practitioners.

Delivering the Dr. Krishnamoorthy Srinivas Lecture, Prof. K Ganapathy, Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, spoke of the importance of meticulous neurological examination to help identify minor brain injuries and concussions. On the occasion, TT Srinivasaraghavan, Managing Director- Sundaram Finance, gifted a "Therapy Ambulance". The Buddhi Mobile Clinic Initiative, taking integrative medical therapy to the doorstep of people with brain and mind problems were launched. ‘Sunday with Sacks,’ a four Sunday retrospective on the legendary Neurologist and Writer, Oliver Sacks

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