What Are Some Disabilities Connected With Traumatic Brain Injury?
Any head injury can cause disruption of brain functions and can result in physical, cognitive, and psychosocial/emotional/interpersonaI disability. Strokes often cause physical disabilities such as hemiplegia (weakness or even paralysis on the side of the body opposite the side of the brain effected by the stroke), dysarthria (problems with speech production due to deficits in speech apparatus coordination), ataxia (motor coordination problems), and apraxia (difficulty with purposeful, voluntary muscle movements in the absence of paralysis or paresis), decreased arrousal (hypoarrousal), changes in mood (especially depression) and emotional control, impulsivity, memory deficits, concentration problems, visual inattention (neglect) of the affected side, language deficits causing communication problems (aphasia) when the stroke is on the left side of the brain, and visuoperceptual problems when the stroke is on the right side of the brain. Anoxia can cause significant impairment of learni
