{"id":1319,"date":"2013-06-06T09:51:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T09:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/?page_id=1319"},"modified":"2025-12-09T10:50:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:50:55","slug":"behaviors-associated-with-brain-damage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/behaviors-associated-with-brain-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Behaviors Associated with Brain Damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Behaviors Associated with Brain Damage<\/h1>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" title=\"Behaviors Associated With Brain Damage\" style=\"width:420px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_kVpkBJ3aTLo\"><div id=\"lyte_kVpkBJ3aTLo\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FkVpkBJ3aTLo%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\">Behaviors Associated With Brain Damage<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kVpkBJ3aTLo\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FkVpkBJ3aTLo%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Behaviors Associated With Brain Damage\" width=\"420\" height=\"295\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:420px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"accordion\"><input id=\"transcript\" type=\"checkbox\" class=\"spoiler_button\" \/><label for=\"transcript\">Transcript<\/label>\n<div class=\"spoiler\" id=\"transcript-spoiler\">\n<p>For the next couple of minutes, I\u2019d like to go over some of the common <i>behaviors, characteristics, traits<\/i>, involved with people who\u2019ve had <i>brain damage<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>So people who have had brain damage in one form or another will exhibit some or perhaps more of the following characteristics or behaviors.<\/p>\n<p>So, #1 we want to talk about is <b>disorientation<\/b>. Those who have had brain damage sometimes feel disoriented or confused. They are bewildered, and suffer perhaps loss of direction &#8211; where am I going? Loss of position &#8211; where am I right now? Loss of time &#8211; it\u2019s already the afternoon, I thought it was still morning. And this results often from an altered attention span and from an altered memory because of the brain damage. So disorientation would be one of the behaviors or characteristics common to someone who\u2019s had brain damage.<\/p>\n<p>Two, we want to talk about <b>depression<\/b>. Here, this is a state of unhappiness or hopelessness manifesting as withdrawal, crying, apprehension or petulance. It\u2019s a depression not associated with something going on in their life, but as a direct result of the brain damage.<\/p>\n<p>Next we want to talk about <b>impaired judgement<\/b>. With brain damage, we often find people unable to assess the consequences of actions and respond appropriately. Their judgement has been impaired. For the person who has not had brain damage, usually if they\u2019ve grown up normally, they are able to assess the consequences of actions and therefore make the appropriate response. But those who have had brain damage are incapable sometimes of doing this and so their judgement is highly impaired. Along with that, similar to but different, is impaired problem-solving.<\/p>\n<p><b>Impaired problem-solving<\/b>: the inability to describe or analyze a problem. What\u2019s wrong? I don\u2019t know. Well, can you tell me that something is wrong? Yes. Well, tell me what is wrong. Well, I don\u2019t know. Or maybe they don\u2019t know &#8211; well how are we going to solve that? I don\u2019t know how to solve it, it\u2019s overwhelming. So they\u2019re not able to describe or analyze a problem. They cannot come up with a strategy to deal with the problem. They can\u2019t even analyze the results. Did that go well? I don\u2019t know, what do you think it did go well?<\/p>\n<p><b>Impaired judgement<\/b> means they can\u2019t assess the consequences of actions and then respond appropriately.<\/p>\n<p><b>Impaired problem-solving<\/b> means they don\u2019t know that the problem is, or if they do, they don\u2019t know how to solve the problem, they\u2019re not even sure if the problem was solved.<\/p>\n<p>Next, we\u2019ll talk about <b>impulsivity<\/b>. Impulsivity, this is an inclination to act or respond to sudden urges and desires without considering the consequences. I\u2019m going to go buy a new car. Well, do you have the money to buy a new car? I don\u2019t care, I\u2019m getting a new car. I want it, I\u2019m going to go do it. So they\u2019ve got this impulsive desire, and they immediately follow through on it without thinking What are the consequences of this? What will it cause or do? So impulsivity can also be a behavior associated with brain damage.<\/p>\n<p>Next, <b>disinhibition<\/b>. Here basically, the ordinary societal and internal inhibitions that people have are completely removed. Where most of us would stop and think, I don\u2019t want to embarrass myself, this isn\u2019t appropriate for this context, this isn\u2019t right our culture, our time, our society or whatever. Disinhibition, due to the brain damage leads someone to just I want to do this. So they might walk into a room full of people and disrobe. Ordinarily, we would all be inhibited against public nudity like that, but this person, due to the brain damage, sees no problem with that, and has no inhibition whatsoever doing things that would not be appropriate otherwise. Next, over here, number seven, we\u2019re going to talk about agitation. Those who\u2019ve had brain damage are often in an agitated state. Nervous anxiety, irritability, lack of attention span, sometimes they\u2019re highly unrestrained in their behavior. There\u2019s a great deal of perhaps aggression, maybe anger, so they\u2019re agitated, once again due to the brain damage. Next, apathy. Those who\u2019ve had brain damage sometimes can exhibit the patterns of behavior of being completely apathetic, disinterest, lack of motivation, lack of energy, complete emotional emptiness.<\/p>\n<p>Next, lack of <b>initiative<\/b>. And here, with initiative, we don\u2019t just merely mean getting the ball rolling, getting something started. Not only do they fail to initiate, but they don\u2019t follow through and complete either. So, you try to get them started on something, they don\u2019t start, or if they do, they give up quickly and don\u2019t actually complete what they\u2019re supposed to be doing. Lack of initiative.<\/p>\n<p>They also sometimes suffer from <b>lack of insight<\/b>. Lack of insight. They are not self-aware, they are incapable to see situations clearly or they often live in denial: this is what\u2019s going to happen if you do that. No it won\u2019t. It will. They basically live in denial, they don\u2019t see situations clearly, they\u2019re not self-aware of what\u2019s going on. So they lack insight.<\/p>\n<p>They also sometimes exhibit emotional lability. Here there is extreme or excessive emotion that swings wildly from side to side without any apparent external stimuli to produce that. So they would go from absolute crying to laughing hysterically with nothing in between to, one, explain the laughter, or to explain the crying. They just, back and forth, excessive emotion, and a quick change in mood &#8211; vast mood swings. Emotional lability.<\/p>\n<p>They also exhibit <b>perseveration<\/b>. Perseveration is repetition. Repetition, repetition, repetition. They say the same word, perform the same action, get stuck on a particular topic, over and over and over again. Long past what would be considered normal or appropriate for the situation. They show an inability to move on to other things, a complete fixation on something. So, the repetition of words or phrases, fixation on a particular topic, or a repetitive behavior done incessantly. Perseveration is a type of behavior commonly associated with brain damage.<\/p>\n<p>And then finally, <b>confabulation<\/b>. Patients with brain damage and also dementia exhibit this particular behavior or trait. Confabulation is fictitious creation of details about past events. This is ordinary done to compensate for memory loss or to alleviate anxiety. So, I\u2019m fearful or I\u2019ve forgotten. So instead of saying I\u2019m afraid or I\u2019ve forgotten, I\u2019m going to make something up. Confabulation. Fictitious creation of details about past events to try to cover over the fact that either they don\u2019t remember, or they\u2019re afraid. Once again, seen not only in those with brain damage, but dementia as well.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a lot of different things to go over. We\u2019ve looked at thirteen common behaviors associated with brain damage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behaviors Associated with Brain Damage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-1319","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"page_type-video","6":"page_domain-nursing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48583,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1319\/revisions\/48583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}