Neuro-Opt Tech for ABI Flashcards
Define: ABI + Examples
Any condition/event resulting in a sudden, non-progressive, or non-degenderative change in neurological processing; TBI, Stroke or Cerebral Vascular Accident, Post-Surgical Neuro Complications, Vestibular Dysfxns
Define: TBI + Examples
Occurrence of injury to the head that is documented in a med record with one or more of the following conditions as contributors: decreased level of consciousness, amnesia, skull fracture, neuro/neuropsych abnormality, intracranial lesion; mild/mod/severe
Open vs Closed TBI – diagnostic question
Did the skull remain intact
What is an MTBI and what are its consequences?
Mild TBI;
Post-Concussion Syndrome (lingering symptoms after injury - headache, fatigue, poor memory, insomnia, impaired gait, noise intolerance, etc.)
Post-Trauma Vision Syndrome (CI, high exophoria/tropia, accommodative dysfxn, oculomotor deficits, vis-spatial distortions, etc.)
Define CVA
Cerebral Vascular Accident
rapidly dev’d symptoms/signs of focal loss of cerebral fxn with no apparent cause other than of vascular origin
Loss of fxn can be global; recovery is full to severe disability
Strokes may be due to arterosclerosis, cerebral embolism, TIA (80% are ischemic)
What % of our environmentally received info is visual?
80%
How many areas of the brain are involved with visual processing?
35
T/F: More areas of the brain are dedicated to vision than any other sensory system?
True
Visual Processing fxn of Occipital Lobe
contour, contrast, depth
Visual Processing fxn of Frontal Lobe
Motor planning, self-directed eye movement
Visual Processing fxn of Temporal Lobe
recog people, places, things; object identification, motion processing
Visual Processing fxn of Parietal Lobe
spatial org of obj, vis attention
Describe: Parvocellular pathway
80% fibers, Ventral Stream, Central Processing/Focal Vision, representation/recog (what is it?), accommodation involved to tell details of obj (shape, colour)
LGN –> Occipital –> Temporal
Describe: Magnocellular pathway
20% fibers, Dorsal Stream, Peripheral Processing/Ambient Vision; visual-spatial, sensory modality of space (Where is it?), Pursuits, Saccades, Vergence for spatial relationships (where we are, where it is)
LGN –> Occipital –> Parietal
Describe: Central/Focal Processing
Parvocellular; detail, what is it?, high res, colour vis, conscious, central 2˚, static, innate
Describe: Peripheral/Ambient Processing
Gestalt, Where am I? Where is it?, Low res, non-conscious, non-colour, entire vis field, dynamic (integrates with other sensory systems), learned
What is Ambient Vision?
A constant stream of data about the location of your body in space, the location of other people and objs, and info about how quickly and in what direction those people/objects are moving
What does Ambient Vision lead to?
Binocularity, accurate judgement of distance and movement, defining our self image/view of our world
Interference with Central/Focal processing
Refractive, Accommodative Dysfxn
Interference with Peripheral/Ambient processing
Gaze palsy, fixation dysfxn, pursuit/saccadic dysfxn, binocular dysfxn, eye muscle paresis/paralysis
Q that Central/Focal processing answers
What is it?
Q that Peripheral/Ambient processing answers
Where is it?
Interference with Central and Peripheral Processing
altered vision: trouble with balance, moving with coordination, walking correctly, knowing where body ends and outside world begins; inability to correctly perceive space and time;
a receptive problem not an expressive problem
Oculomotor Dysfunction deficits
Limitations of gaze, nystagmus, speed and quality of pursuits and saccades