Brain Damage

## Overview

Brain damage is a status that humans can get by damaging their head, it can be seen in the inspect menu.

## Effects

When a human gets brain damage it causes them to seize up and lock their joints. This usually causes them to bounce around a little. Most of the time they get locked into a position with their arms locked by their chest and extended feet. This is called a seizure. Sometimes during a seizure, the human can go into cardiac arrest. When curing brain damage, it is recommended that you have the human connected to a Cardiopulmonary Bypass Machine in case of a sudden cardiac arrest.

## Curing

From my testing, damage doesn't cause them to unlock their joints, but that makes sense. You can't just shoot someone in a car crash in the leg to make them get better. There are, however, different ways to cure this.

### Tritium

Brain damage can be cured by using Tritium, a substance obtained from Atom Bombs. It doesn't have to be a full syringe, even the smallest amount possible should suffice.

### Life Serum and Mending Serum

An easier fix for brain damage would be to use the Life Syringe since it fixes all status problems with Humans while also curing brain damage, but this is usually considered cheaty by some players when trying to cure Humans in a "Legit" way.

The Mending Syringe can also cure brain damage but if it's caused by lack of oxygen from drowning it cannot be cured, but electricity can fix it.

### Reconstructor

Yet another one of the easier fixes for brain damage would be to use the Reconstructor. Just shoot them in the head and it will do wonders.

### Electricity

The Legit way to cure brain damage takes some work but is surprisingly easy:

* First, give our subject a very gentle love tap AKA give him brain damage with a weapon and severe damage to the head, making sure to not kill him.
* Second, after sufficiently giving our subject brain damage, make sure he doesn't knock any equipment around.
* Third, in case of the heart stopping due to the seizures, attach the Cardiovascular Bypass Machine to keep our subject alive. Attach the Accumulator to our human too.
* Fourth, turn the Accumulator on and off quickly to minimize damage and shock our subject. May require multiple shocks to fix the brain damage.
* Fifth, after removing the brain damage, fix our subject up with a Mending Syringe to fix most injuries.
* Sixth and final one, disconnect everything and that's that, our human is good to go, he'll just be a bit crispy for a while.

## Trivia

* Being able to cure brain damage from a Human makes no sense and could be a joke referring to how exposure to high amounts of radioactivity give powers or cure illnesses in comics or cartoons.
* As the defibrillator also uses electric shocks, instead of an Accumulator you can also use it as a substitute if you fear the ragdoll might be injured a little too much.

## Extra

With modding you can get separate ways to cure, if you are looking for a more in-depth guide to Brain Damage you can go ahead and visit the steam guide that will be linked. It's a very great explanation and seems as if it were made by an actual neurologist.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3072672993