Deficits Following a TBI

Question 1

Craniotomy

Answer 1

surgery to remove part of the skull to allow the brain to swell without incurring damage from being crushed by pressure within the skull

Question 2

Motor deficits

Answer 2

Abnormal muscle tone
Swallowing disorders
motor speech disorders
diffused brain injuries

Question 3

motor speech disorders

Answer 3

apraxia of speech
spastic
flaccid
ataxic dysarthria

OR
combination of the four

Question 4

Cognitive Deficits

Answer 4

Orientation
attention
memory
problem solving
inference
personality changes

Question 5

Coma

Answer 5

Period of unconsciousness lasting more than 6 hours with individual unable to be awakened and is unresponsive to sensory stimuli

Question 6

Vegetative state

Answer 6

Person is minimally responsive to stimuli, but lacking consciousness and cognition

Ex. withdraw from pain

Question 7

Minimally conscious state

Answer 7

Person displays inconsistent but definite behavioral signs of consciousness

Question 8

Persistent vegetative state

Answer 8

Vegetative state continues longer than 4 weeks

Question 9

Post-traumatic amnesia

Answer 9

Combination of retrograde and anterograde memory loss that present in those who recover from comas and vegetative states

Question 10

Personality Changes

Answer 10

May result in inappropriate sexual advances, inappropriate statements at times, loss of awareness of social and cultural conventions, and more subtle changes such as preferences in food and music

Question 11

Language Deficits

Answer 11

Anomia
aphasia
decreased arousal
cognitive deficits

often follow closed head TBI