Which of the following is a common outcome of severe brain trauma?

Which of the following is a common outcome of severe brain trauma?
 
  a. complete recovery without intellectual or emotional difficulties
  b. complete intellectual recovery but continuing emotional problems
  c. complete emotional recovery but cognitive difficulties
 d. continuing cognitive difficulties and emotional disturbances

Question 2

Andre has been diagnosed with PD, which is causing problems with voluntary motor movement. What would physicians do to help the brain resume producing dopamine?
 
  a. gene therapy
 b. antidepressant
 c. psychotherapy
 d. frontal cortex lobotomy

Question 3

Hilary was involved in a shooting that leaves her with traumatic brain injury. She spends several weeks in a coma. Afterward, she experienced headaches, disorientation, confusion, and irritability, as well as depression. She is then diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy. What, if any, aspect of Hilary's case is unusual?
 
  a. It is unusual for people with a single traumatic brain injury to have a chronic traumatic encephalopathy diagnosis.
  b. It is unusual for people with traumatic brain injury to be in a coma for weeks.
 c. It is unusual for people with traumatic brain injury to feel depressed.
 d. It is unusual for people with traumatic brain injury to experience headaches, disorientation, confusion, and irritability.

Question 4

Priscilla is in an auto accident that causes her head to crash against the windshield. Her brain is pressed against the skull and bruised by the impact. She loses consciousness for three days, but none of the brain tissue is torn. Priscilla experienced a ____.
 
  a. cerebral laceration
 b. cerebrovascular accident
  c. stroke
 d. contusion

Question 5

Sophie is playing volleyball. As she is about to spike the ball over the net, another player on her team accidentally collides with her, and Sophie hits her head against one of the metal poles that holds up the net. Sophie loses consciousness for a few seconds and, in a daze, she walked to the bench to sit down. Although she had a headache for a couple of weeks, she suffers no other effects from the blow. Sophie has experienced what type of brain injury?
 
  a. a contusion
 b. a concussion
 c. a laceration
 d. a cerebrovascular accident

Question 6

Harold was involved in a fight and received several kicks to the head. A CAT scan revealed bruising of his cortex. Harold's symptoms suggest ____.
 
  a. that he suffered a contusion
 b. apraxia and agnosia
 c. that he suffered a stroke
 d. that a cerebral laceration occurred