Traumatic brain injury. Presentation!!!

2. • Also known as
Intracranial
Injury
Defined as damage to
the brain brought
about from external
mechanical dynamism,
such as rapid
acceleration or
deceleration,
impact, blast waves, or
penetration by a
projectile.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumatic_brain_injury)

3. Based on TBI
survivor, Amy
Jones story…
Trauma survivor, Amy
Jones, discusses the car
crash that left her as the
only survivor and with a
Traumatic Brain Injury.
She relays the strength
and perseverance needed
to overcome the
challenges and thrive
again.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lNEzUMsb64)

4. SYMPTOMS FACED
• Impulsive decisions
• Lack of motor coordination
• Behavioural and mood changes
• Aphasia (difficulty in having normal conversations)
• Difficulty in everyday activities
• Changes in appropriate social behaviour, shortfalls in social decisions,
and intellectual changes, chiefly glitches with sustained attention,
processing speed and executive functioning.

5. http://www.utvet.com/ALS_TBI.html

6. Part of the
brain involved
Cerebellum
Cerebral Cortex
 Frontal Lobe (involved in
case)
 Temporal Lobe (involved
in case)
 Parietal Lobe
 Occipital Lobe
Brainstem

7. Temporal Lobe
Visual memory
 Contains hippocampus
 Role in the formation of explicit long term memory
modulated by the amygdala
Auditory
 Primary auditory cortex
 Receives sensory information from the ears and secondary
areas process the information into meaningful units such
as speech and words
Visual
 Interpret the meaning of visual stimuli and establish object
recognition
Language recognition
 Wernicke’s area which works together with Broca’s motor
speech area

8. Frontal Lobe
 Has the ability to project future
consequences resulting from
current actions, the choice
between good and bad actions (or
better and best), the override and
suppression of socially
unacceptable responses, and the
determination of similarities and
differences between things or
events

9. What I have learned through this course:
As a medical student, I joined this course to enhance my understanding of the
human brain. Neurobiology has always been interesting to me. By joining this
course, I have learned so many new things about the brain. The topic that I
chose was not taught directly but there were so many elements, for example, the
parts of the brain and its functions, that were fully covered in the lectures.
Learning about the brain made me to start thinking more on how we take daily
activities for granted at times and the amount of effort and neuronal processes
that it takes for us to elicit that response. It has been a wonderful experience
joining this cause because it just opens my mind about all that is happening in
the human brain. Thank you!!!