| Term | Definition |
|---|
| causes of brain damage | Stroke, Head Injury, Infections and Growths, Progressive degeneration of CNS |
| Cerebrovascular Accident causes | (stroke)Embolus, thrombosis, TIA (transient ischemic attack - mini stroke is temporary), hemorrages |
| Embolus | moving clot (stroke) |
| thrombosis | artery filled with plaque...leads to anoxia and infarct...more frequent than hemmorage; more likely to survive it |
| Hemorrage | bleeds in the brain: ruptured aneurysm - weakening in the artery that bulges, usually fatal |
| Anoxia | loss of oxygen to brain |
| Infarct | Dead tissue in the brain |
| Closed Head Injuries | Contusion, concussion, hemorrhages, hematoma |
| Contusion | surface of brain is bruised |
| Concussion | brain trauma with loss of consciousness (disruption of mental functions) |
| hematoma | blood in enclosed areas |
| Neoplasms | New growths, causes pressure on brain |
| Neoplasm (what they do) | may be malignant or benign, take up space in the brain, may destroy brain tissue and increase pressure in skull, may cause dizziness, headache, memory deficits, general sensory and motor difficulties, can be temporary or permanent |
| Progressive Deterioration | usually affect nervous system |
| Progressive Deterioration diseases | Dementia, Amyotophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis |
| Dementia | Includes Alzheimer's Disease...Deterioration of intellectual abilities such as memory, concentration, reasoing, and judgment due to organic disease or brain damage. Emotional disturbances and personality changes often accompany the intellectual deterioration |
| Amyotophic lateral sclerosis | Lou Gehrig's disease |
| Aphasia | Language disorder due to left hemisphere damage (typically resulting from stroke); results in cognitive communication deficits |
| Cognitive Communication Deficits | attention, memory, orientation, organization, problem-solving, pragmatic deficits |
| Types of Aphasia | Broca's (Expressive), Wernicke's (Receptive), Global |
| Broca's (Expressive) Aphasia | Expressive / formulation difficulties, phonological planning problems, telegraphic speech, relatively intact comprehension (but relatively in tact comprehension) |
| Wernicke's (Receptive) Aphasia | reduced comprehension, loss of content words, retain function words, jargon |
| Global Aphasia | severely impaired comprehension and expression, yes/no confusion, stereotypies, persevation |
| Treatment of Aphasia | Individual or Group Therapy, Basic communication, expand communication function, increase multi-modality (cues, prompts, AAC), Compensatory Strategies (gives hints, etc), Family participation |
| Right Hemisphere Deficits | TBI and Dementia |
| TBI | Traumatic Brain Injury (car accidents #1 **) memory deficits, decreased organization of thoughts and language, poor processing information, pragmatic difficulties, nonspecific..vague language, behavioral problems, intellectual / cognitive problems |
| Language Symptoms | inappropriate responses, topic shifts, poor information processing, disorientation and confusion, often dysarthic, impulsivity, excessive emotionally or flat effect, difficulty with figurative language |
| tBI Open v Closed | What is difference? |
| Left Neglect | neglect left side of body..if brain damage on right side of brain |
| CHI | closed head injury |
Combine with other sets
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