CBIS NEUROCOGNITIVE ISSUES QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | CERTIFIED BRAIN INJURY
SPECIALIST STUDY GUIDE 2026
Interfering factors with cognitive function - correct answer ✔✔medical stability
-medical issues, such as metabolic, pulmonary, endocrine, and sleep dysfunction can
compromise cognition
Impairments of emotional and behavioral control can result directly from:
-damage sustained directly to the brain
-difficulties adjusting to deficits
-pre-existing factors
-a combo of these
-depression is a common co-morbid condition to a brain injury
-aggression, irritability, non compliance and emotional lability are commonly seen after frontal
lobe damage
Principles Cognitive rehabilitation - correct answer ✔✔-important to view both cog skills and
their remediation as hierarchical and inter-related
-basic cog skills should be addressed before higher level
-less complex treatment should supersede treatments of greater complexity
-hierarchical approach should target attention, perception, categorization, abstract thinking, and
memory to restore/reorganize impaired cognition
Compensatory approach to cognition - correct answer ✔✔-assumes certain cognitive functions
cannot be recovered due to damage
-focuses on development of strategies to accommodate limitations (ie: planners, checklists,
smart phones)
-a functional application is essential
SPECIALIST STUDY GUIDE 2026
Interfering factors with cognitive function - correct answer ✔✔medical stability
-medical issues, such as metabolic, pulmonary, endocrine, and sleep dysfunction can
compromise cognition
Impairments of emotional and behavioral control can result directly from:
-damage sustained directly to the brain
-difficulties adjusting to deficits
-pre-existing factors
-a combo of these
-depression is a common co-morbid condition to a brain injury
-aggression, irritability, non compliance and emotional lability are commonly seen after frontal
lobe damage
Principles Cognitive rehabilitation - correct answer ✔✔-important to view both cog skills and
their remediation as hierarchical and inter-related
-basic cog skills should be addressed before higher level
-less complex treatment should supersede treatments of greater complexity
-hierarchical approach should target attention, perception, categorization, abstract thinking, and
memory to restore/reorganize impaired cognition
Compensatory approach to cognition - correct answer ✔✔-assumes certain cognitive functions
cannot be recovered due to damage
-focuses on development of strategies to accommodate limitations (ie: planners, checklists,
smart phones)
-a functional application is essential
