Adult Language Disorders and Cognitive Based Dysfunction

1. Risk factors of TBI: Alcohol and drug abuse, school adjustment and social history, SES, h/o TBI, sports.

2. Closed Head injury (non-penetrating)

2.1. Open Head Injury (penetrating)

3. 50% of the patients in most long-term care facilities have dementia

4. Physicians diagnose when two or more brain functions are significantly impaired

5. Affects 15 % of Older Americans

6. Typical Symptoms: Memory impairment, attention and impulsive problems, visual dysfunction

7. Right- Hemisphere Dysfunction (RHD)

8. cognitive disorders associated with right cerebral hemisphere.

9. Dementia: loss of linguistic and cognitive ability due to a progressive brain disease.

10. Traumatic Brain Injury: accquired neurological injury, which can result from car accidents, severe falls, and acts of violence.

11. Aphasia Syndromes

12. Broca's, Transcortical motor, global, Wernicke's, Transcortical sensory, Conduction, Anomic

12.1. New node

13. Aphasia : language disorder that is acquired sometime after an individual has developed language competence ( Justice,2010)