The effects of an Acquired Brain Injury

The effects of an Acquired Brain Injury

An Acquired Brain Injury can be categorised into mild, moderate and severe. A brain injury can cause a variety of effects and children with a severe brain injury can have little symptoms compared to a child with a mild injury, as every brain is wired differently and works in different ways. Some effects are immediate and some take weeks, months or years to arise depending the degree of injury, where in the injury was and the age of your child.

Common effects of a brain injury (usually categorised as mild and moderate):

• If the motor cortex of the frontal lobe (the front part of the brain in charge of muscle function) is affected problems such as weakness and fatigue
• Frontal lobe damage can cause a change in personality which most parents find really distressing, difficulty in processing information and concentrating, learning new skills, emotional difficulties such as anxiety or depression.
• Parietal Lobe damage can cause a problem in manipulating objects, mathematics such as adding numbers together, the interpretation of touch and pain and bodily awareness (proprioception)
• Occipital Lobe damage can cause a problem in processing visual information
• Temporal lobe damage can result in problems of processing sensory input into meanings for example visual memories, language comprehension and emotion association

Uncommon effects of a brain injury (usually categorised as severe):

• Some children may permanently lose the ability walk, talk, control their bladder and bowels and may have difficulty eating and drinking.

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