The ability to think, see, smell, feel, remember, and behave appropriately is dependent on an intact brain. Even minor brain damage can result in permanent impairments in these functions. Such impairments can interfere with normal everyday activities. The ability to recognize familiar faces, to count, to read, to remember, and many other higher functions is dependent on the intact brain. The degree and location of the injury will determine the type and extent of functional impairments.
Brain damage can turn a person into a non person.
Brain damage, whether from surgery, strokes, tumors, disease, toxins, near drowning, electric shock, lightning strike, or head injuries can rob a person of a sense of self. At the very least brain damage can seriously compromise quality of life. While brain damage may strike a single individual, in reality it is the family that bears the brunt of its destructive impact. Traumatic Brain Injury. Traumatic brain injury, TBI , results from damage to brain tissue caused by an external force.