brain injury

Question 1

brain injury

Answer 1

any brain damage that impairs, or interferes with, the normal functioning of the brain, either temporarily or permanently

Question 2

biological impact

Answer 2

movement

Question 3

psychological impact

Answer 3

memory, mood, emotion and decision making

Question 4

social impact

Answer 4

relationships

Question 5

spacial neglect

Answer 5

damage to the right parietal lobe due to stroke or injury, causes the patient to completely ignore the left side of their world and body

Question 6

effects of spacial neglect

Answer 6

only eat the food on the right side of the plate, shave the right side of their face or wash the right side of their body

Question 7

Broca’s aphasia

Answer 7

damage to the left hemisphere in the frontal lobe

Question 8

effects of Broca’s aphasia

Answer 8

speech production, which can be short simple sentence that lack grammar and non fluent speech

Question 9

Wernicke aphasia

Answer 9

damage to the left hemisphere temporal lobe

Question 10

effects of Wernicke’s aphasia

Answer 10

difficulty with written and spoken speech comprehension, their speech is fluent but doesn’t make sense