All acquired brain injuries are traumatic brain injuries, true or false correct answers False
Which of the following are inertial brain injuries? correct answers Coup-countercoup injury
An acquired brain injury: correct answers Can be be caused by external force or internal insults
to the brain CANNOT BE hereditary, congenital, degenerative
Which of the following has the highest incidence rate of TBI? correct answers Falls
A traumatic brain injury can be caused by an open or closed injury, true or false correct answers
True
A non-traumatic insult can be caused by; correct answers Stroke, anoxia (complete loss of
oxygen), tumors
Mortality from seizures is how many times more like after a brain injury after TBI? correct
answers 22 times
If a person has one brain injury, how many more times likely they will have another? correct
answers 3 times
If you have a second brain injury, you're 5 times more likely to have a third brain injury. correct
answers 8 TIMES MORE LIKELY AFTER THE SECOND TO GET A THIRD
The increase of TBI rates of men than women is: correct answers 40% to 20% (of men compared
to women)
Examples of traumatic brain injury are all of the following except: correct answers Stroke (IT IS:
concussion, gunshot wound, diffuse axonal injury)
What is the age group that have the highest number of sports related traumatic brain injury
correct answers 10-19
LOC stands for correct answers Loss of consciousness
Women who have experienced domestic violence have a rate of 67% that suffer traumatic brain
injury, true or false correct answers True
What is the leading cause of brain injury in the military? correct answers Blast injuries
Which of the following is not a brain injury screening tool? correct answers MPAI-4 (functional
assessment) (IS SCREENING: ACE, ImPACT, TBIQ)
CARF stands for correct answers Commission on Accreditation for Rehabilitation Facilities
, The total annual cost for all people injuries with brain injury is $152 billion, true or false correct
answers False
The Olmstead Decision was an important ruling because correct answers Challenged government
to develop cost effective, community-based services for people with disabilities
The TBI act of 1996 is the single most important because it gave authority for all of the
following except: correct answers Funds advocacy programs (IT DID: the CDC to establish
project to prevent TBI, through the NIH awards grants for research and treatment, HRSA makes
grants available for states to carry out demonstration projects and statewide services)
What is the average decrease in life expectancy after TBI: correct answers 7 years
Results of a CT scan do not typically show consequences of PPCS and are usually not used in
treatment planning, true or false correct answers True
Once it is determined a person is stable, what time of intervention is the most effective to address
mTBI? correct answers Early treatment
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy is: correct answers A progressive condition typically seen
from repetitive brain trauma
What percentage of all TBI's are mTBI's correct answers 75%
Which of the following symptoms are NOT usually associated with mTBI correct answers
Increased energy (ARE: fatigue, headaches, changes in balance)
Components of Central Nervous System (CNS) include correct answers Brain and Spinal Cord
This lobe integrates sensory information from the body correct answers Parietal
This lobe is responsible for executive functions correct answers Frontal
This lobe is primarily responsible for vision correct answers Occipital
This lobe is primarily responsible for speech, hearing and memory correct answers Temporal
Glial cells perform what function? correct answers Support and nourish neurons
Brain stem is compromised by all of the following except correct answers Diencephalon
One of the functions of the hypothalamus is correct answers Temperature regulation
Damage to the amygdala may cause which of the following correct answers Increased fight or
flight response