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Simplified Brain Behavior | Traumatic Brain Injury

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Simplified Brain Behavior

Frontal Lobe

  • Initiation
  • Problem-solving
  • Judgment
  • Inhibition of behavior
  • Planning/anticipation
  • Self-monitoring
  • Motor planning
  • Personality/emotions
  • Awareness of abilities/limitations
  • Organization
  • Attention/concentration
  • Mental flexibility
  • Speaking (expressive language)
Parietal Lobe
  • Sense of touch
  • Differentiation: size, shape, color
  • Spatial perception
  • Visual perception

Temporal Lobe

  • Memory
  • Hearing
  • Understanding language (receptive language)
  • Organization and sequencing

Occipital Lobe

  • Vision

 

Cerebellum

  • Balance
  • Coordination
  • Skilled motor activity

General Patterns of Dysfunction by Location of Injury

Right Side of Brain

  • Impairments in visual-spatial perception
  • Left-neglect, or inattention to the left side of space or body
  • Decreased awareness of deficits
  • Altered creativity and music perception
  • Loss of the gestalt, or “big picture”
  • Visual memory deficits
  • Decreased control over left-sided movements

Left Side of Brain

  • Difficulties in understanding language (receptive language)
  • Difficulties in speaking or verbal output (expressive language)
  • Catastrophic reactions (depression, anxiety)
  • Verbal memory deficits
  • Decreased control over right-sided movements
  • Impaired logic
  • Sequencing difficulties

Diffuse Injury

  • Reduced thinking speed
  • Increased confusion
  • Reduced attention and concentration
  • Increased fatigue
  • Impaired cognitive functions across all lobes

 


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