Brain injury reference guide

Question 1

Changes after frontal lobe damage

Answer 1

• difficulty sequencing
• perseveration
• difficulty with attention
• personality changes
• difficulty with problem solving
• loss of verbal expression
• loss of spontaneity
• inflexible thinking
• uncontrollable emotional, social, and sexual behavioral changes
• poor initiation of voluntary movements

Question 2

Changes after Occipital Lobe Damage

Answer 2

• Vision defects
• Difficulty visually locating objects
• Difficulty identifying colors
• Hallucinations and visual distortions
• Word blindness
• Inability to recognize object movement
• difficulty reading and writing
• poor processing of visual information

Question 3

Changes after temporal lobe damage

Answer 3

• Difficulty understanding spoken words
• disturbance of selective attention
• STM loss
• Change in sexuality
• Persistent talking
• Increased aggressive behavior
• Difficulty identifying and categorizing objects
• Difficulty recognizing faces and visually locating objects

Question 4

Changes after parietal lobe damage

Answer 4

• Difficulty with academic skills
• Difficulty naming
• right/left confusion
• impaired sense of touch
• inability to focus visual attention
• difficulty with hand eye coordination
• lack of awareness of body parts
• impaired spatial orientation

Question 5

Changes after cerebellar damage

Answer 5

• impaired gross and fine motor coordination
• loss of the ability to walk
• poor postural control
• inability to make rapid movements
• impaired control of eye movements
• tremors/dizziness
• slurred speech

Question 6

Changes after brain stem damage

Answer 6

• Impaired regulation of temperature, heart rate, and resp.
• difficulty swallowing
• difficulty with balance
• dizziness and nausea (vertigo)
• impaired arousal and sleep regulation