TBIs

Question 1

Purpose of frontal lobe

Answer 1

Planning, organising, problem solving, selective attention, personality and variety of higher cognitive functions including behaviour and emotions

Question 2

Anterior frontal lobe

Answer 2

prefrontal cortex, Very important for higher cognitive functions and determination of personality

Question 3

Posterior frontal love

Answer 3

premotor and motor areas. (Premotor = modifying movements)

Question 4

Occipital love

Answer 4

Visual information, mainly responsible for visual reception but also contains associate areas that help in the visual recognition of shapes and colours

Question 5

Right parietal lobe

Answer 5

Visuo-spatial deficits (e.g. finding way around new or even familiar places)

Question 6

Left parietal lobes

Answer 6

May disrupt a patient’s ability to understand spoken and/or written information

Question 7

Parietal loves

Answer 7

contain primary sensory cortex (touch, pressure), association cortex - fine sensation (judgement of texture, weight, size, shape)

Question 8

Temporal lobes

Answer 8

sound and smell. R - mainly involved in visual memory for pictures and faces. L - mainly involved in verbal memory (i.e memory for words and names0

Question 9

Brainstem

Answer 9

Breathing, digestion, HR, BP and arousal. Most of the cranial nerves come from the brainstem

Question 10

Cerebellum

Answer 10

Helps coordinate movement - balance and muscle coordination, Damage may result in ataxia.

Question 11

normal ICP

Answer 11

0-15 mmHg

Question 12

GCS 13-15

Answer 12

Mild

Question 13

GCS 9-12

Answer 13

Moderate

Question 14

GCS

Answer 14

Severe

Question 15

Tardieu scale 0

Answer 15

no resistance

Question 16

Tardieu scale 1

Answer 16

Slight resistance no clear catch

Question 17

Tardieu scale 2

Answer 17

Clear catch at precise angle

Question 18

Tardieu scale 3

Answer 18

Fatigable clonus

Question 19

Tardieu scale 4

Answer 19

Infatigable clonus