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Brain Injury Overview: Causes, Symptoms, and Care

Learn about different types of brain injuries, their effects on brain regions, and common causes like falls, strokes, and traumatic events. Understand brain functions and how injuries impact daily activities. Contact BIACT for support.

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Brain Injury Overview: Causes, Symptoms, and Care

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  1. Module 1:All About the Brain

  2. What is brain injury? Acquired Brain Injury Non-Traumatic Traumatic Hypoxic/Anoxic Infections Strokes Tumors Toxic Exposure open closed Penetrating Injury Gunshot Other Penetrating Objects Falls Struck Crashes (MVC) Assaults Explosion/Blasts Other/Unknown

  3. What does each region of the brain do? Frontal Lobe • Thinking • Planning + organizing • Short-term memory • Problem solving • Movement • Personality All the things you need to get up and go!

  4. What does each region of the brain do? Parietal Lobe • Sense of touch, taste and temperature • Differentiation of size and shape • Spatial awareness • Visual perception

  5. What does each region of the brain do? Temporal Lobe • Hearing • Language • Memory • Organizing • Sequencing

  6. What does each region of your brain do? Occipital Lobe • Vision • Visual Processing • Processes images from your eyes and links the information with images stored in memory

  7. How do kids hurt their brains? Falls Motor vehicle crashes Sports Assaults

  8. Q & A

  9. 200 Day Hill Road, Suite 250 Windsor, CT 06095 Office 860.219.0291 Helpline 800.278.8242 general@biact.org BIACT.org Thank You!

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