Brain Injury Terms and Definitions

CBDRP
Centers for Birth Defects Research & Prevention

Alzheimer's disease
Severe form of dementia caused by significant deterioration of brain tissue.

Ear Birth Defect
Anotia/microtia

brain plasticity
Theories based on the idea that the brain may have the ability to use surviving brain cells in a different way to make up for those brain cells that are damaged.

closed head injury
An injury to the head or brain in which the skull remains intact.

SADDAN
SADDAN (severe achondroplasia with developmental delay and acanthosis nigricans) is a rare inherited disorder of bone growth characterized by skeletal, brain, and skin abnormalities.

Beare-Stevenson cutis gyrata syndrome
Beare-Stevenson cutis gyrata syndrome is a genetic disorder characterized by skin abnormalities and the premature fusion of certain bones of the skull craniosynostosis), which prevents further growth of the skull and affects the shape of the head and face.

hippocampus
Part of the brain that assists in storing memory by sorting and sending new bits of information to be stored in appropriate sections of your brain and recalling them when necessary.

Gastrointestinal Birth Defect
Esophageal atresia and tracheoesophageal fistula, intestinal atresia, biliary atresia

Genitourinary Birth Defect
Renal agenesis (bilateral), hypospadias (2nd or 3rd degree)