Monday, August 20, 2007

Brain Tumor Symptoms and Brain Position

The difference of brain tumor symptoms when they are in different parts of the brain. Stands to reason when we know that different parts of the brain control different things. Also you need to watch out for personality changes with brain tumors, that is the scariest thing when someone's personality changes.
Frontal lobe tumours - Changes in personality and intellect. Unco-ordinated walking or weakness of one side of the body. Loss of smell, occasional speech difficulties.
Parietal lobe - Difficulty in speaking or understanding words. Problems with writing or reading. Difficulty in co-ordinating certain movements. Difficulty finding your way around. Difficulty with numbers (doing simple calculations)
Occipital lobe - Loss of vision on one side.
Temporal lobe - Fits may cause strange sensations: a feeling of fear or intense familiarity (dé jà vu), strange smells or blackouts. Speech difficulties and memory problems.
Cerebellum - Lack of co-ordination which affects walking and speech (dysarthria), unsteadiness, flickering involuntary movement of the eyes (nystagmus). Vomiting and neck stiffness.
Brain stem - Unsteadiness and an unco-ordinated walk. Facial weakness, a one-sided smile or drooping eyelid. Double vision.
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Brain Tumor Symptoms

Interesting and it depends on where the brain tumor is, but the maths symptom is something worth considering


  • depth
    perception ( a bit scary when he was driving)


  • Shaking of the left hand

  • an inability to process simple maths problems

  • dragging of the left leg

  • a problem with his right eye, focus and peripheral vision

  • and in the end, no balance.

I would
like to draw your attention  to the Maths Problem,  I
have since heard of two other people that had a brain tumor.
 Their tumors were in different parts of the brain.
 However they both had the same issues with simple problem
solving.  This stands out to us now as about 12 months before
my Dad was diagnosed he was covering a deck.  The deck was a
rectangle and he could not figure out how to calculate the area of
shade cloth he would need.  He KNEW he should be able to do
it, but just could not figure out HOW to do it.   (length by
breadth)  This from a person that had never had any issues
with
this type of problem in the past.  We put it down to getting
old.  but now we know why.

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video library

this is a great site with heaps and heaps of video information on brain tumors.

I really suggest you get to this site and have a look.

there is videos on treatment, surviving, nutrition, experimental treatments etc.



Rainbow Memorial Video Library

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brain tumor treatment options

this is a very very interesting article on treating brain tumors.

when we heard the news
"there is nothing more we can do"

we went looking for options, after all what have we got to loose.

A huge video library of brain tumor options

Video library, there is heaps and heaps of information here on brain tumors treatments and a whole heap of other stuff.

If you looking for brain tumor info check this out.



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