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Exam 4 Flashcards

1
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What is the leading cause of death in people ages 1-30?

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Accidents

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What age group is at the greatest risk for Accidents?

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Ages 15-24

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What is Neuronal Retrograde Degeneration?

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Axon gets sheered

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What is Neuronal Anterograde Degeneration?

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Neurons die, which affects other neurons death

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What does a Penetrating Head Injury (PHI) possible involve?

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  1. Infection

2. Hemorrhaging

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What are the two causes of Closed Head Injuries (CHI)

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  1. Acceleration

2. Deceleration

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7
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What is Coup and Counterop?

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Injury wherever brain is hit first, then injury to where the brain bounces to on the other side

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What scale is used to assess the severity of TBI?

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Glasgow Coma Scale

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8
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According to the Glasgow Coma Scale, if you have a score less than 5…

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You are less likely to survive

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What are the three categories of the Glasgow?

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  1. Eye Opening Response
  2. Verbal Response
  3. Motor Response
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What is the GCS Classification of a Severe Head Injury?

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8 or Less

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What is the GCS Classification of a Moderate Head Injury?

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9 to 12

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What is the GCS Classification of a Mild Head Injury?

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13 to 15

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13
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Are there sleep/wake cycles during comas?

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Yes

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14
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Comas are injuries to what two places?

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  1. Lower brainstem

2. Reticular Activating System

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What are the four main complications of Moderate to Severe TBI?

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  1. Edema
  2. Brain Herniation
  3. Hematoma
  4. Seizures
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16
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What is an Edema?

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Intracranial Swelling

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17
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What is Brain Herniation?

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Displacement/deformation of the brain

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What is a hematoma?

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Brain bleed

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Anticonvulsants administered prophylactically are used to aid with what?

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Seizures

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What is a Mild TBI?

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A concussion that lasts less than 30 minutes

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21
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What is Postconcussional Syndrome?

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Problems with:

  1. Attention
  2. Memory
  3. Speed of processing
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How long does it take for Postconcussional Syndrome symptoms to resolve?

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3-6 months, but affects are cumulative

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23
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What is Neuronal Sprouting?

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Neuron Regrowth

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What is Plasticity?

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Ability for brains to reorganize after injury

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25
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Is plasticity better in children or adults?

26
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What is the role of the Neuropsychologist in treating head injuries? (4)

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  1. Baseline Evaluation
  2. Make plan of action
  3. Educate patient and family
  4. Find Strengths/Weaknesses
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What is the role of PT’s in treating Head Injuries?

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  1. Improve Gross Motor Control

2. Determine Appropriate Assistive Application

28
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What is the role of OT’s in treating Head Injuries? (4)

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Improve:

  1. Fine Motor Skills
  2. Sensory Function
  3. Perceptual-Motor Function
  4. ADL performance
29
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What is the role of Speech Therapists in treating Head Injuries?

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  1. Improve Receptive/Expressive Skills

2. Treat Dysarthria

30
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What is Dysarthria?

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Articulation Disorders

31
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What is the role of Therapeutic Recreation in treating Head Injuries?

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To design recreational activities to build skills

32
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What is Cognitive Remediation?

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Training from lower to higher cognitive functioning

33
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What is the Context Driven Approach?

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Training specific skills for their needs

34
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What is the fast growing segment of the population?

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The Elderly

35
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Does crystallized intelligence change with aging?

36
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What type of intelligence decreases with age?

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Fluid intelligence

37
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What is fluid intelligence used for?

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Problem solving in novel situations

38
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After age 75, both Fluid and Crystallized intelligence decline until what age?

39
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When is frontal lobe affected during aging?

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During dementia

40
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What happens to the hippocampus as we age?

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Short term memory recall worsens

41
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What happens to the temporal and parietal lobe as we age?

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Finding your way worsens

42
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What is Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)?

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Age related cognitive decline

43
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Is MCI related to dementia?

44
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MCI typically affects what aspects of memory?

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Encoding and retrieval

45
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What is dementia?

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Significant decline in cognitive functioning

46
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What is Cortical dementia?

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Dementia associated with the brain’s gray matter

47
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What are two types of cortical dementias?

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  1. Alzheimer’s

2. Pick’s

48
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What is Subcortical Dementia?

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Dementias associated with the brains white matter

49
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What are two types of subcortical dementias?

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  1. Parkinson’s

2. Creutzfeldt-Jakob’s

50
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What is the diagnostic criteria for dementia? (4)

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Impaired:

  1. Cognitive Function
  2. Memory
  3. Language
  4. Executive Function

Connie Made Late Excuses

51
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Is Parkinson’s disease genetic or environmental?

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Environmental

52
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What is Alzheimer’s disease?

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Progressive Cortical Dementia

53
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What is the likelyhood of Alzheimer’s after age 85?

54
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In Alzheimer’s disease, which chromosomes have been implicated?

55
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The presence of what disease guarantee getting Alzheimers in the future?

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Down Syndrome

56
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What are three symptoms of Alzheimer’s?

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  1. Dementia
  2. Neuropatholical tangles
  3. Senile Plaques
57
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Atrophy of the frontal, temporal, and parental areas, as well as the hippocampus, are signs of what disease?

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Alzheimer’s

58
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What are the four neuropsychological deficits in Alzheimers?

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  1. Memory Disorder
  2. Fluent Anomic Aphasia
  3. Visual Spatial Difficulties
  4. Decline in general intellectual functioning
59
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What are is the Memory Disorder of Alzheimer’s?

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Declarative learning goes down

60
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What is the Fluent Anomic Aphasia, associated with Alzheimers?

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  1. Can speak fine but has a word finding problem

2. Stumbles on certain words

61
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What medications slow down Alzheimers?

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Aricept and Reminyl

62
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What activities help with Alzheimer’s symptom control?

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  1. Music Therapy
  2. Movies from their time period
  3. Scrapbooking
63
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How are Beta Amyloid Proteins (that form plaques) and Acetylcholine related to Alzheimer’s?

A

They are chemical alterations that occur during Alzheimer’s

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