Lobes
Areas
Nerves
TBI levels
TBI symptoms
100
What lobe is primarily for visual stimulus reception and interpretation
What is the occipital lobe
100
What area of the brain is responsible for understanding speeech
What is Wernicke's area
100
How many spinal nerve roots are there at the cervical level
What is 8
100
What is the difference between an open and closed head injury
What is open injury involves penetration of the skull Closed injury does not
100
What is dysphagia
What is trouble swallowing safely
200
Which lobe is responsible for interpreting sensation and sensory memory
What is the parietal lobe
200
What area of the brain controls speech
What is Broca's area
200
How many nerve roots are there at the thoracic level
What is 12
200
What Los Amigos Scale of Cognitive Functioning denote confusion, agitation or problems with judgment
What are Levels IV, V & VI (4,5,6)
200
What is loss of vision in half of the visual field
What is hemianopsia
300
What lobe is responsible for distinguishing auditory stimuli
What is the temporal lobe
300
What area of the brain is involved in learning and long term memory
What is the hippocampus
300
When the spinal cord is completely severed and a person has no sensation and decreased blood flow to an area this can cause
What is decubitus ulcer
300
What scale is used to measure levels of consciousness after a TBI
What is the Glasgow Coma Scale
300
Wha is the decreased ability to communicate, both receptively and expressively
What is aphasia
400
Which lobe is responsible for voluntary and skilled movements
What is the frontal lobe
400
What part of the cortex is involved in reasoning and abstract thinking
What is the associational cortex
400
What cervical nerve roots control the fingers and hand
What are C7-C8 and T1
400
What Los Amigos Scale of Cognitive Functioning levels indicate coma
What are Levels I,II and III (1, 2, 3)
400
Slurred speech and difficulty with pronunciation after TBI is called
What is dysarthria
500
What structure is part of the extrapyramidal system and adjusts posture and gross voluntary and automatic movements
What is the basal ganglia
500
Bundles of long axons grouped together in the nervous system are called
What are tracts
500
Which cervical nerve roots control the wrist and elbow
What are C5-C7
500
What Los Amigos Scale of Cognitive Functioning levels show purposeful, appropriate and independent behaviors
What are Levels VII, VIII, IX, X (7,8,9 and 10)
500
Inappropriate sexual advances after TBI is called
What is disinhibition
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