4] Treating The Patient With Brain Injury Flashcards
4 main types of brain injury
1] external forces
2] accelerate/decelerate
3] blast injuries
4] [penetrating objects
Gender more likely to have TBI related deaths and injuries
Men (3x more for death)
0-4 years get TBI by
Assault
5-24 years get TBI by
MVA
65 and older get TBI by
Falls
What are the deficits seen with damage to the frontal lobe
Deficits in: reasoning, planning, parts of speech, movement, emotions, problem solving
Deficits seen with damage to the parietal lobe
Movement
Orientation
Recognition
Perception of stimuli
Deficits associated with damage to the temporal lobe
Perception and recognition of auditory stimuli, memory and speech
Wandering hand syndrome seen with damage to whcih lobe
Temporal lobe
Deficits seen with damage to the occipital love
Visual processing deficit
Deficits seen with damage to the cerebellum
Incoordination of voluntary movements resulting in problems with: Posture Balance Coordination Speech
Damage to what results in difficulty learning motor behaviors?
Cerebellum
Delicate and rapid sequence of sensory and motor events requiring the coordination activity of several parts of the body
Communication
Listeners do not tell on
Info delivered from speech waves
Listeners depend on ?
Cues- CONTEXT
Which population has the most amount of language disorders?
Children - 43.7%
Vocal tract includes
Lungs, trachea, larynx, pharynx, nose and mouth
3 primary functions of speech production
Breathing
Swallowing
Speech
When we speak, what do we control?
Rate of breathing
Impaired auditory comprehension, speech is often a normal rate and melody
Fluent aphasia
Fluent aphasia is lesion where
Posterior temporal gyrus of L hemisphere
Non-fluent aphasia is characterized by
Limited vocab
Hesitant speech
Awkward articulation
Restricted use of grammar
Where is non-fluent aphasia located
Anterior lesion- frontal convolution in L hemisphere
Global aphasia is not a type but
A designation of severity
Wernickes aphasia is AKA
Fluent, sensory, receptive aphasia
Wernickes aphasia is located?
Lesion in posterior portion- temporal gyrus L hemisphere
Characterized by impaired auditory comprehension
Wernickes aphasia
Wernickes aphasia is?
Fluent speech with word subs and nonsense words
Reading and writing for wernickes
Severely impaired