Samantha learns that after suffering a traumatic brain injury, her brother tobias has significant injury to his thalamus. what can we anticipate will be the impact on tobias in the future? a. tobias will not be able to speak but will understand what is being said to him.
b. tobias will be conscious but is likely to have long-term memory loss.
c. tobias will most likely suffer from irreversible brain death.
d. tobias will likely make a full recovery, but will have problems with impulse control.

Option-C

Explanation:

Thalamus is the portion of the brain which assess and interpret the signals from the body and send it to the specified cortical region of the brain thus it acts as a relay system of the impulse.

In the given question, the problem caused by the injury of the thalamus depend on which portion of the thalamus is injured but if the thalamus portion is injured significantly or a large portion of the thalamus is injured then it could cause coma which is considered the cause of the irreversible death of the brain.

Thus, Option-C is the correct answer.