What is a Brain Injury?
Injury to the head indicated by a fall, accident, or traumatic event
What is a TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury)?
Plays a role in making decisions and controlling behaviors
What is the Frontal Lobe?
Forming a thought, making a decisions, judging a situation
What are Cognitive Skills?
Injury to the head indicated by stroke, diseases, or tumors
What is a Non-Traumatic Brain Injury?
Plays a role in understanding sound and balance
What is the Temporal Lobe?
Walking down the street, dancing the night away
What are Motor Skills
Injury indicated by paralysis on one side, trouble speaking or walking, and a headache?
What is a Stroke?
Plays a role in controlling breathing and your heartbeat
What is the Brain Stem?
Recalling a memory, paying attention, choosing what to do
What are Cognitive Skills?
Plays a role in understanding vision
What is the Occipital Lobe?
Lifting your arm to drink a coffee, reaching out to grab your shoes
What are Motor Skills?
What is a Concussion?
Plays a role in understanding the relation of objects in space and sensations
What is the Parietal Lobe?
Pulling over a sweater, shoveling your driveway
What are Motor Skills?