SHOW NOTES:

Head Trauma
(Direct, Infectious, Anoxic, Vascular) 

Physical Abnormalities 

Behavioral Changes 

Language/Communication 

Brain Lobes:

Frontal:
Controls personality, emotions, intellect, judgement, problem solving,
attention, organizing, social skills

Broca’s Area: Speech,
writing, particularly expressing

Parietal:
Controls motor and sensory functions, and helps with vision and hearing

Temporal:
Language, memory, emotions, perceptions

Wernicke’s Area:

Impacts speech formation and understanding

Occipital:
Vision 

Aphasia:
Receptive and expressive  

Memory:

Short Term: Prefrontal Cortex 

Long Term: Hippocampus in Temporal Lobe 

Amnesia: Global Partial, Retrograde, Anterograde 

LINKS:

Brain Anatomy: https://mayfieldclinic.com/pe-anatbrain.htm 

Head Injury and Communication: https://www.headway.org.uk/about-brain-injury/individuals/effects-of-brain-injury/communication-problems/ 

Aphasia: https://www.headway.org.uk/about-brain-injury/individuals/effects-of-brain-injury/communication-problems/language-impairment-aphasia/ 

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