Head Trauma II

Question 1

_____ does not need to be lost or impaired to diagnose a mild TBI

Answer 1

Consciousness

Question 2

These three areas make up the tests for the Glascow Coma Scale

Answer 2

Eye, motor, and verbal response

Question 3

A GCS score of more than 12 indicates a _____ TBI

Answer 3

mild

Question 4

There is a ______ age demographic for people at risk for mild TBI

Answer 4

trimodal- kids, young adults, and the elderly

Question 5

Physical symptoms of mTBI include headache, nausea, and _____ to light and sound

Answer 5

sensitivity

Question 6

Cognitive symptoms of mTBI typically revolve around loss of ______

Answer 6

memory

Question 7

Patients can feel more ______ after a mTBI (symptom)

Answer 7

emotional

Question 8

______ symptoms of mTBI have a wide variance (too much, too little of this)

Answer 8

sleep

Question 9

____ loading is a direct impact to the head

Answer 9

contact

Question 10

_____ loading is when the brain bounces around inside the skull after rapid motion

Answer 10

Inertia

Question 11

All injuries do include an ______ component

Answer 11

inertial

Question 12

The human brain is uniquely vulnerable to ____ acceleration

Answer 12

rotational

Question 13

_____ matter is particularly vulnerable to shear stress and is the major factor in mild TBI pathology

Answer 13

White

Question 14

Rapid motion causes damage to axons due to their ______ property (think of silly putty)

Answer 14

viscoelastic

Question 15

_____ (structure) in the axons, not the axons themselves, typically break during mTBI

Answer 15

Microtubules

Question 16

_____ (location) structures are the most vulnerable to DAI

Answer 16

Midline

Question 17

_____ _____ ____ is the molecular marker of DAI

Answer 17

Amyloid Precursor Protein

Question 18

Primary ______ is the most important cause of pathology in mild TBI- that is, ______ injury (type) is typically not present

Answer 18

DAI; secondary

Question 19

____ (molecular marker) has been found in the blood of patients with mild TBI, as it is an axonal protein

Answer 19

SNTF

Question 20

Impact in the _____ plane is highly correlated with loss of consciousness

Answer 20

axial

Question 21

_____ ___ imaging can show the integrity of the white matter tracts

Answer 21

Diffusion Tensor

Question 22

Post concussive disorder may be due to __-_____ _____, not the mTBI itself

Answer 22

pre-existing conditions

Question 23

CTE tends to localize to the _____ and ____ lobes

Answer 23

temporal and frontal

Question 24

There is marked _____ (descriptor) ____ atrophy

Answer 24

global cerebral

Question 25

_____ _____ ____ is the near or complete loss of the septum pellucidum

Answer 25

Cavum septum pellucidum

Question 26

Beware of _____ ____ when looking at CTE data due to limited sample size and high profile cases

Answer 26

selection bias

Question 27

What are the pathological diagnostic criteria for CTE?

Answer 27

There are none, gotcha