This is the most popular and common method of determining the severity of traumatic head injury is the score from the what?
What is Glasgow Coma Scale?
100
This of the brain refers to swelling.
What is edema?
100
This refers to the recovery of functioning in brain areas that are remote from the damage site, but connected to it.
What is diaschisis?
100
Neuropsychologists often perform an initial evaluation of head injured patients here.
What is at their bedside in the hospital?
200
This can damage the brain directly or by deforming, stretching, and tearing both axons and cell bodies.
What is traumatic brain injury?
200
The GCS measures the depth of coma by looking at these 3 domains.
What is consciousness, language, and motor functioning?
200
In moderate and severe brain injuries, this is the main cause of death.
What is high and uncontrollable intracranial pressure?
200
This refers to the ability of the brain to reorganize after an injury.
What is plasticity?
200
The longer testing for patients is recommended to take place when?
What is in the next 4 to 6 weeks following stabilization?
300
If an axon is torn, it may degenerate back and kill the cell body, which is called this.
What is retrograde degeneration?
300
Medically, this is used to describe a score of 8 or less on the GCS, where the patient cannot open his or her eyes, make any recognizable sounds, and follow any commands.
What is coma?
300
This results when the intracranial pressure is too high and the brain is pushed through the foramen magnum.
What is brain herniation?
300
These individuals have the greater brain ability to reorganize after an injury.
Who are children?
300
This refers to using other behavioral strategies to work around the problem or help take the place of the lost function.
What is substitution?
400
In closed head injury, the skull is not broken, but the brain gets damaged as it sloshes against the skull. In this, the brain is stationary and some external force causes it to suddenly accelerate
What is acceleration?
400
Damage to this system normally used for brain arousal may be the cause for coma.
What is reticular activating system?
400
This is treated by drilling one or more burr holes in the skull?
What is a subdural hematoma and extradural hematoma?
400
This refers to when after an area of the brain is damaged, the remaining neurons in the area may become hypersensitive to neurotransmitters, which may be a result of an increased number of receptors on dendrites in reaction to the decrease in neurotransmitter from the lesion.
What is denervation supersensitivity?
400
This new subspecialty within clinical neuropsychology is based on the idea that if damaged brain functions are not completely destroyed there is some chance they can be restored.
What is neuropsychological rehabilitation?
500
This is the type of traumatic head injury that results when an object penetrates the skull and damages the brain by direct contact.
What is penetrating "open" head injury?
500
Long term neuropsychological outcome can be predicted by the number of days it takes to reach a score of what on the GCS.
What is 15?
500
This is the name for the cognitive and behavioral consequences of mild head injury resulting in headache, fatigue, irritability, dizziness, lack of concentration, and memory problems.
What is postconcussional syndrome?
500
This involves regrowth of axons that have only been partially damaged and may lead to some recovery of the affected function.
What is axonal and collateral sprouting?
500
This is the amount that neuropsychological rehabilitation helps above and beyond natural recovery.