Final Exam - Section 5 (12/8/16)

Question 1

Cerebral vascular disorders:

Prevention-

• _________ drugs to prevent clot – low dose aspirin

Answer 1

Antiplatelet

Question 2

Cerebral vascular disorders:

Prevention-

• Prevent obesity, _________, hypertension
• Exercise
• Stop _________
• Healthy diet

Answer 2

• diabetes

- smoking

Question 3

Cerebral vascular disorders:

Cerebral vascular disorders:

Prevention-

• Antiplatelet drugs to prevent clot – low dose _________

Answer 3

aspirin

Question 4

-Traumatic brain injury (TBI)-

More than 250,000 TBI injuries as a result of _________ in Iraq and Afghanistan

Answer 4

wars

Question 5

• Traumatic brain injury (TBI)-

- Blow to head most common form of _________ in younger people (< age 40)

Answer 5

brain damage

Question 6

-Traumatic brain injury (TBI)-

_________ - most common form of brain damage in younger people (< age 40)

Answer 6

• Blow to head

Question 7

-Traumatic brain injury (TBI)-

_________ = 20% of TBIs

Answer 7

Sports

Question 8

-Traumatic brain injury (TBI)-

TBI’s are more common in _________

Answer 8

Males

Question 9

-Traumatic brain injury (TBI)-

Damage from _________, increased intracranial pressure, direct damage to _________

Answer 9

• bleeding

- tissue

Question 10

Long-term _________ in neural activity after _________

Answer 10

• decrease

- TBI

Question 11

_________ can be almost as bad as severe TBI

Answer 11

Concussion

Question 12

Migraine-like headaches for up to a _________ after concussion

Answer 12

year

Question 13

-Traumatic brain injury (TBI)-

_________ head injuries

• Skull is penetrated
• Pieces of skull damage brain

Answer 13

Open

Question 14

-Traumatic brain injury (TBI)-

open head injuries-

• Skull is _________
• Pieces of _________ damage brain

Answer 14

• penetrated

- skull

Question 15

-Traumatic brain injury (TBI)-

_________ head injuries

-Symptoms resemble surgical removal of areas of cortex

Answer 15

Open

Question 16

-Traumatic brain injury (TBI)-

Open head injuries-

• Gabrielle Giffords-
• _________ - problems speaking
• Paralysis on _________ side

Answer 16

• Aphasia

- right

Question 17

-Traumatic brain injury (TBI)-

_________ head injuries-

Bruise (coup) at site of blow – skull pushed against brain

Answer 17

Closed

Question 18

-Traumatic brain injury (TBI)-

Closed head injuries-

Bruise (_________) at site of blow – skull pushed against _________

Answer 18

• coup

- brain

Question 19

-Traumatic brain injury (TBI)-

Closed head injuries-

_________ occurs opposite coup

Answer 19

Contrecoup

Question 20

-Traumatic brain injury (TBI)-

Closed head injuries-

Shearing of neurons causes microscopic _________ throughout brain

Answer 20

lesions

Question 21

-Traumatic brain injury (TBI)-

Closed head injuries-

Shearing of neurons causes microscopic lesions throughout brain

-Damage to frontal and temporal lobes, _________ callosum, anterior _________

Answer 21

• corpus

- commissure

Question 22

-Traumatic brain injury (TBI)-

Closed head injuries-

Damage often to _________ and _________ lobes

Answer 22

• frontal

- temporal

Question 23

-Traumatic brain injury (TBI)-

_________ head injuries-

Hematoma – blood inside skull – puts pressure on brain

Answer 23

Closed

Question 24

-Traumatic brain injury (TBI)-

Closed head injuries-

_________ – blood inside skull – puts _________ on brain

Answer 24

• Hematoma

- pressure

Question 25

-Traumatic brain injury (TBI)- Closed head injuries- _________ – swelling – puts pressure on brain

Answer 25

Edema

Question 26

-Traumatic brain injury (TBI)- _________ head injuries- Edema – swelling – puts pressure on brain

Answer 26

Closed

Question 27

-Traumatic brain injury (TBI)- Closed head injuries- Traffic accident injuries can result in _________ brain injury and enlarged _________, prolonged coma

Answer 27

- diffuse | - ventricles

Question 28

-Traumatic brain injury (TBI)- Closed head injuries often produce _________

Answer 28

coma

Question 29

-Traumatic brain injury (TBI)- Closed head injuries- Diffuse and localized damage - Localized damage often _________ and temporal lobes - -Affects personality and social _________

Answer 29

- frontal | - behavior

Question 30

-Traumatic brain injury (TBI)- Closed head injuries- Boxers – dementia _________ (punch-drunk) – due to repeated concussions

Answer 30

pugilistica

Question 31

-Traumatic brain injury (TBI)- Closed head injuries- dementia pugilistica (punch-drunk) – due to repeated _________

Answer 31

concussions

Question 32

-Traumatic brain injury (TBI)- Closed head injuries- Football – ___% of those with repeated concussions show dementia with damage to frontal and temporal lobes – chronic traumatic _________

Answer 32

- 10 | - encephalopathy

Question 33

Traumatic brain injury (TBI)- Assessment of head injury _________

Answer 33

Glasgow coma scale

Question 34

Traumatic brain injury (TBI)- Glasgow coma scale- Length of _________ also indicative of extent of head injury

Answer 34

amnesia

Question 35

Traumatic brain injury (TBI)- Glasgow coma scale- Increased duration of amnesia predicts _________ memory problems

Answer 35

long-term

Question 36

Traumatic brain injury (TBI)- Most recovery in _____ months but can take years

Answer 36

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