Affected Areas
The most common area of damage from TBIs. Lesioning might lead to impaired executive function, impulsivity, slowed thinking, and more.
What is the frontal lobe?
This common neuropsychological test assesses both frontal and temporal lobe function.
What is the Rey-O Complex?
This similarity between Sam and M.L. is an exemplar of the group(s) most commonly affected by Severe TBI.
What is being a young male?
This type of brain damage involves the skull getting caught between two compressing objects.
What is a crushing head injury?
Damage to this area might lead to visual field impairments, or cases of agnosia.
What is the occipital lobe?
This assessment is a structured method used to assess memory through the recall of personal events.
What is the autobiographical interview?
The stationary object that collided with Sam's car.
What is a lamp post?
Brain damage opposite the injury site
What is a contre-coup injury?
Damage to this brain region made it difficult for Sam to keep a diary and gain independence.
What is the temporal lobe?
This very common post-head-trauma neuropsychological test was administered to M.L. but not to Sam.
What is the Glasgow Coma Scale?
This deficit was revealed in the writing and object assembly tasks of Sam's assessment.
What is right-sided hemiparesis?
Penetration, crushing, and closed damage
What are the three types of head injury?
Damage to this brain region in tbi victims typically causes arousal issues in the prefrontal cortex, leading to the common executive dysfunction issues present.
What is the reticular formation?
Perhaps the most widely used neuropsychological test that we've seen in class. This assessment involves many subtests and has a number of editions.
This is the specific term used to describe M.L.'s memory impairment.
What is isolated retrograde amnesia? (Or post-traumatic amnesia)
This deficit is also associated with psychiatric conditions like Autism Spectrum Disorder that involve frontal lobe differences.
What is concrete communication?
This bundle of fibres mediates memory and was lesioned in M.L.'s case.
What is the uncinate fasciculus?
This modified test consisted of paper-and-pencil tasks worth varying amounts of points. It was able to display some of M.L's frontal lobe dysfunction
What is the Six-Element Task?
These specific areas of an MRI scan indicated the locations of the lesions in M.L.'s brain.
What are hypointensities?
This stage of severe brain injury results from lack of oxygenation due to environment and context.
What is a second injury?