TBI

Temporal Lobe

Memory, receptive lang, sequencing, hearing, organization

Temporal Lobe Injury

injury here may lead to difficulty with communication or memory

Parietal Lobe

sense of touch, spatial / depth perception, Identification of sizes shapes and colors, visual perception

Parietal Lobe injury

injury here may result in trouble with 5 primary senses

Cerebellum

balance & coordination, motor activity, visual perception

Cerebellum Injury

injury may affect balance, movement, and coordination

Occipital Lobe

Vision

Occipital Lobe Injury

Injury here can lead to trouble seeing or perceiving shape and size of objects

Brain Stem

breathing, arousal, consciousness, heart rate, sleep & wake cycles, essential for survival like breathing and heart rate

Right side of brain

controls left body

Left side of brain

controls right body

Left side traits

analytical, logical, precise, literal,

Injury to Left side can result in

difficulties understanding language, speaking or verbal output (receptive and expressive language), depression, anxiety, difficulty speaking, impaired logic, sequencing difficulties, decreased control in right side of body

Right side traits

creative, imaginative, intuitive, conceptual, figurative language, humor, metaphors

Injury to Right side of brain

visual-spatial impairment, visual memory deficits, left neglect, decreased awareness of deficits, altered creativity and music perception

white matter…

helps connect lobes to the brain and sends and communicated with parts of the brain

contusion

brain bruise caused by force to the head, can be removed if big enough

4 types of skull fractures

depressed, diastatic, linear, basilar fracture

Linear Fracture…

most common

Basilar Fracture…

most serious

Epidural hematomas…

most common

herniation syndromes

subfalcine, central trasntenorial, uncal

coup contrecoup injury

contusions that are both at the site of impact and on the complete opposite side of the brain

mild injury

brief, loss of consciousness, vomit, dizzy, memory loss

moderate injury

unconsciousness for up to 24 hours, contusions or bleeding

severe injury

unconsciousness exceeding 24 hours (coma), no sleep/wake cycle during LOC

second impact syndrome

“recurrent traumatic brain injury” occurs when persons sustains a second traumatic brain injury before the first injury heals