What does TBI stand for?

Which of the following is NOT a common cause of TBIs?

Which of the following is not a type of TBI?

True! Your brain is floating in your skull in CSF. Your olfactory nerves pass through the cribiform plate of the ethmoid bone, ending at the olfactory bulbs that give your sense of smell. When you hit your head, your brain moves with the CSF in your skull and can actually SHEAR off your olfactory nerves. 

True or false? Can Traumatic brain injuries cause a loss of smell (anosmia)?

Males tend to participate in more high risk behaviors than women do. They are 2.22 times more likely to have a TBI than women 

True or False? Men more susceptible to traumatic brain injuries than women? 

Shaken baby syndrome usually occurs when a parent or other caregiver shakes a baby out of anger or frustration, often because the baby  will not stop crying. Babies have very weak neck muscles that cannot fully support their proportionally large heads. Primarily seen in children younger than 2, with majority happening before the child’s first birthday 

Infant is chronically cold causing frequent shivering

Infant gets physically shaken by a parent or caregiver

Infant gets emotionally "shaken" by an environmental stressor

How do babies get shaken baby syndrome?

Safety equipment to prevent TBI include helmets and seat belts

looking both ways before crossing the street

TBIs can be prevented in children by the use of safety equipment such as: ___, ____ _____.

True: TBIs can cause personality changes.

True or False: TBIs can cause personality changes.

3 indicates brain death according to the Glasgow coma scale (GCS)

What Glasgow coma scale indicates brain death?

Once damaged, neurons are unable to regenerate and undergo necrosis (tissue death) and will lose its function and therefore the connection.

Compensatory mechanisms does not necessitate regeneration.