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✔✔The traumatic Brain Injury Act of 1996 - ✔✔The only federal legislation that
specifically and exclusively addresses TBI in the civilian population.
✔✔Diagnostic criteria of Alzheimer's - ✔✔Functional Deficits
✔✔What lobe is involved in memory and time processing - ✔✔Temporal
✔✔Heterotopic Ossification (HO), contracture's, and structures are all disorders of what
system - ✔✔Musculoskeletal
✔✔What does the blood brain barrier do? - ✔✔Prevents blood from coming into contact
with the brain but allows small particles through
✔✔Definition Aspiration - ✔✔The act of breathing especially in, drawing something in,
out, up through suction
✔✔Death rate of seizures - ✔✔22%
✔✔Severity of brain injury and linkage to school - ✔✔80% TBI mild, 10% moderate,
10% severe
✔✔Language cognition lobe - ✔✔Frontal
✔✔Define acquired brain injury - ✔✔An injury to the brain that is not hereditary,
congenital, degenerative, or induced by birth trauma
✔✔Memory and sequencing lobe - ✔✔Temporal
✔✔PCS - ✔✔post concussion syndrome: a cluster of persistent symptoms of a
concussed person may experience such as problems with attention, memory, fatigue,
sleep etc
✔✔counter coup injury - ✔✔brain trauma to the opposite side of the initial force due to
bouncing of the brain inside the cranium
✔✔biomedical model - ✔✔Problem deficit focused responses
✔✔Environmental Model - ✔✔Placing social and physical areas on environment and
how that affects disability
✔✔Moral Model/ Religious Model - ✔✔Oldest model of disability
, ✔✔Functional Model of Disabilty - ✔✔Most individualized and personal Model person
centered care
✔✔Sociopolitical Model/ minority Model - ✔✔Accommodations in society
✔✔Metacognition - ✔✔Knowing you have an injury
✔✔Anosognosia - ✔✔Diminished self -awareness
✔✔Integumentary system - ✔✔Consists of the skin, mucous membranes, hair, and nail
✔✔FIM Scale (Functional Independence Measure) - ✔✔Most wildly used in Acute rehab
✔✔Extended Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS-E) - ✔✔Increases the # of categories from
5 to 8 (dead, vegetative state, lower severe disability, upper severe disability, lower mod
disability, upper moderate disability, lower good recovery, upper good recovery)
✔✔Functional assessment measure (FAM) - ✔✔an adjunct set of items to the FIM that
specifically address cognitive, behavioral, and communicative skill areas
✔✔JFK Coma Recovery Scale - ✔✔Often used with individuals who are in a vegetative
state or minimally conscious state
✔✔Ranchos or level of cognitive functioning scale - ✔✔An outcome measure used for
brain injury post coma. Scores person on alertness and ability to respond to presented
stimuli. Scoring ranges from 1 (no response) to 8 (purposeful and appropriate)
✔✔ADA titles 1-3 - ✔✔Title 1: employment
Title 2: recreation, activity and use of community
Title 3: public accommodations
✔✔What group of people with TBI are more receptive to depression? - ✔✔Mild TBI
because they have more self-awareness
✔✔What perfect of people post TBI report sleep disturbances? - ✔✔30-80% (32-73%?)
✔✔Sensory memory - ✔✔holds sensory information for a few seconds or less after item
is perceived
✔✔short-term memory - ✔✔Enables recall of information lasting a few minutes to hours
✔✔Working memory - ✔✔Temporary storage and active processing of information