EVALUATION Client Name: Ingrid Age: 45 Diagnosis: Traumatic Brain Injury Medical/Surgical History: Spent weeks at acute care hospital before admission to inpatient rehabilitation facility. Occupational Profile Ingrid was a social worker‚ wife‚ and mother who live in a two story colonial home with her husband and two daughters‚ aged 8 and 15 years old. She was active in the school of her children‚ serving on committees and volunteering to read in the classroom. In addition‚ she attended to church
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How does Emily Dickinson try to describe a psychological state in her poem “I felt a Funeral in my Brain?” Emily Dickson was born in 1830‚ in the town of Amherst‚ Massachusetts. She grew up in a prominent and prosperous household in which she was raised as a cultured Christian woman. The sixteenth centaury was a very historical period in America. During this time slavery had been abolished‚ women were campaigning for rights‚ gold was discovered and America was going through a depression. Transcendentalism
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is made to see how severe the injury is within the person. According to Struchen & Clark (2007)‚ the reason for doing this is to see the initial “triaging” and helping with planning with planning treatment. There are three main ways in traumatic brain injury is assessed and characterized. The first is through Loss of Consciousness (LOC) which is done when after a head injury‚ a person may be going through a coma. The longer a person is unconscious‚ the more severe the injury is. What happens‚ is
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Traumatic Brain Injury: Myths‚ Misconceptions and the Need for Lifelong Healthcare I don’t have a droopy face‚ a steel plate in my head‚ nor am I paralyzed in any region of my body. I have a speech impediment and disfluency‚ cognitive fatigue‚ short term memory loss‚ slow processing of information‚ noise sensitivity‚ and attention deficit. I look “normal” and I have a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Social prejudice and negative perceptions of survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) exist. There
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How can traumatic brain injuries due to sports be avoided in young adolescents and teenagers? Sports of any make or type are part of today’s society. Sporting events are televised worldwide for its entertaining pleasures. Remember watching football before the year 2000 and seeing all the great hits and blocks that we all came to love and enjoy watching? Hearing the words from the commentators‚ “he got the wind knocked out of him‚” when the players were slammed to the ground as part of the game
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passages‚ reading only the first several pages of articles‚ and browsing quickly through information without taking the time and the effort to comprehend what they read. Carr cites studies showing that reading on the internet alters circuits in the brain that causes people to become decoders of information‚ losing capacity to deeply think about the subjects they read. The cause is the internet’s business world. Google and other companies attempt to feed people as much information as possible so that
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A Paper Presentation on BRAIN CONTROLLED CAR FOR DISABLED USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Submitted on the event of Zeitgeist’09 At UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
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human brain results in its fourfold increase in volume between birth and adulthood and during this time frame there are also significant changes in cognitive ability‚ the most marked of which occurs in early infancy. It is only relatively recently‚ with the advancement of neuroimaging technology‚ that researchers have begun to examine how brain structure‚ that is its physical fabric and organisation‚ might relate to its function‚ i.e. the tasks it performs‚ in a child ’s developing brain. One view
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Localization refers to the specific area of the brain that is responsible for a specific function. In the 1960s‚ Roger Sperry and his colleagues experimented with the split brain to determine each hemispheres function‚ this knowledge had previously been undiscovered and he went on to receive a Nobel Prize in 1981. A split brain is a scenario in which the Corpus Callosum connecting the two hemispheres of the brain is severed to some degree meaning the hemispheres cannot work in correlation with
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specialization of function in specific structures of the brain? Developmental cognitive neuropsychology seeks to understand and explain the relationship between the human brain and its function. One might consider the extent to which cognitive development can be understood in terms of the specialisation of function in specific structures of the brain. Two contrasting theories of functional specialisation will be presented‚ debating the means by which brain functions develop and contesting the influence
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