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Verified Questions & Answers on
Traumatic Brain Injury (Updated 2025)
* Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) 3-8 - ✔✔Severe TBI; normal or abnormal structural
imaging. LOC over 24 hours, post traumatic amnesia over 7 days
* Glasgow Coma Scale 9-12 - ✔✔Moderate TBI; LOC over 30 minutes but less than
24 hours; alteration of consciousness over 24 hours, post traumatic amnesia more
than 1 day but less than 7 days
* Glasgow Coma Scale 13-15 - ✔✔Mild TBI; normal imaging; LOC 0-30 minutes,
alteration of consciousness up to 24 hours, post traumatic amnesia up to 1 day
* 3 parts of neuron - ✔✔Cell body
Axon
Dendrites
,* 2.5 million TBIs - ✔✔53,000 deaths (2%)
284,000 hospitalizations (11%)
2,214,000 ED visits (87%)
* Coup-contrecoup - ✔✔When the brain accelerates in one directions, it
rebounds in the opposite direction
* Acquired Brain Injury - ✔✔An injury to the brain that is not hereditary,
congenital, degenerative or induced by birth trauma
* Traumatic Brain Injury - ✔✔An alteration of brain function or other evidence of
brain pathology caused by an external force
* Incidence - ✔✔Rate or range of occurrence
,* Prevalence - ✔✔Number of people with a given condition at a specific point in
time
* What determines the effects of brain injury? - ✔✔Injury severity
Age at injury
Alcohol misuse
Domestic violence
Service in military
Participation in sports
* Concussion - ✔✔Mild TBI caused by bump, blow or jolt to head that can change
the way the brain works (or a fall)
Can occur in any sport or recreation activity
Memory loss
May or may not lose consciousness
, * 2.5 million people sustained TBI in 2010 - ✔✔
* Brain Stem - ✔✔Top of spinal column
Central point for all incoming and outgoing information and basic life functions
* Limbic System - ✔✔Emotions and basic feelings
* Frontal Lobe Damage - ✔✔Executive function/personality
Lack of control of behaviors, poor short term memory and working memory
* Broca's Area - ✔✔Located in lower portion of motor cortex (left frontal-
temporal lobe)
Expression- production of speech
* Wernicke's Area - ✔✔Located in left temporal parietal area
Verified Questions & Answers on
Traumatic Brain Injury (Updated 2025)
* Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) 3-8 - ✔✔Severe TBI; normal or abnormal structural
imaging. LOC over 24 hours, post traumatic amnesia over 7 days
* Glasgow Coma Scale 9-12 - ✔✔Moderate TBI; LOC over 30 minutes but less than
24 hours; alteration of consciousness over 24 hours, post traumatic amnesia more
than 1 day but less than 7 days
* Glasgow Coma Scale 13-15 - ✔✔Mild TBI; normal imaging; LOC 0-30 minutes,
alteration of consciousness up to 24 hours, post traumatic amnesia up to 1 day
* 3 parts of neuron - ✔✔Cell body
Axon
Dendrites
,* 2.5 million TBIs - ✔✔53,000 deaths (2%)
284,000 hospitalizations (11%)
2,214,000 ED visits (87%)
* Coup-contrecoup - ✔✔When the brain accelerates in one directions, it
rebounds in the opposite direction
* Acquired Brain Injury - ✔✔An injury to the brain that is not hereditary,
congenital, degenerative or induced by birth trauma
* Traumatic Brain Injury - ✔✔An alteration of brain function or other evidence of
brain pathology caused by an external force
* Incidence - ✔✔Rate or range of occurrence
,* Prevalence - ✔✔Number of people with a given condition at a specific point in
time
* What determines the effects of brain injury? - ✔✔Injury severity
Age at injury
Alcohol misuse
Domestic violence
Service in military
Participation in sports
* Concussion - ✔✔Mild TBI caused by bump, blow or jolt to head that can change
the way the brain works (or a fall)
Can occur in any sport or recreation activity
Memory loss
May or may not lose consciousness
, * 2.5 million people sustained TBI in 2010 - ✔✔
* Brain Stem - ✔✔Top of spinal column
Central point for all incoming and outgoing information and basic life functions
* Limbic System - ✔✔Emotions and basic feelings
* Frontal Lobe Damage - ✔✔Executive function/personality
Lack of control of behaviors, poor short term memory and working memory
* Broca's Area - ✔✔Located in lower portion of motor cortex (left frontal-
temporal lobe)
Expression- production of speech
* Wernicke's Area - ✔✔Located in left temporal parietal area
