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In UK, the compensations received for a brain injury claim is significantly larger than an average personal injury claim. Thorough knowledge of these symptoms should be researched if you are thinking of making a claim for brain injury either for yourself or someone else. Below are possible physical and cognitive symptoms that may occur due to damage to certain areas of the brain.

Injury of Forehead or Frontal Lobe

a) Paralysis or losing the ability to perform simple moments of part or parts of the body
b) It will become impossible to interact spontaneously with others
c) Persistently thinking about a single thing
d) Mood changes
e) A change in personality
f) Social behaviour changes
g) The incapability of expressing yourself – it can be known as Brocha's Aphasia
h) Inability to perform a sequence of bodily movements required to perform simple tasks such as making tea or lighting a candle
i) Losing flexibility in thought process
j) Losing attention easily
k) Difficulty in performing everyday problem solving

Injury of the Parietal lobe or the top or back of the head

a) Inability in naming an object
b) Reading will become a problem
c) The inability to draw objects
d) Solving easy mathematical problems or Dyscalculia as it is known will be impossible to deal with
e) Visual focus will become impossible
f) Inability in attending multiple objects at a time
g) Agraphia or inability to find words while writing
h) Unable to tell the difference between right and left
i) Difficulty in hand and eye coordination

Injury of the Occipital lobes or the posterior part of the head

a) Vision defects
b) Reading or Alexia will be more difficult for you
c) Recognising colours may be difficult
d) Visual illusions or seeing objects inaccurately
e) The incapability to recognise drawn objects
f) Difficulty in writing and reading
g) Locating objects in the environment may become more difficult
h) have dellusions
i) Recognising words may become difficult
j) Inability to identify the movement of an object

Injury of the temporal lobes or the portion of the head above the ears

a) Inability to recognize faces
b) Inability to pay attention to what is being seen and heard
c) Short-term memory loss
d) Sexual desire may be lost or may even increase
e) Talking alot
f) Inability to understand spoken words
g) Identifying objects and saying what they are can be difficult
h) long term memory problems
i) The incapabiliy in categorising objects
j) Increase in aggressiveness

Injury of the brain stem or portion of the brain that is deep within

a) Decrease in the vital capacity to breath, which is necessary for speech
b) You will become powerless to identifying objects in the environment
c) Sickness and giddiness
d) The propensity to swallow food and water
e) Trouble in balancing and movement
f) Problems sleeping or insomnia

Injury of the cerebellum or the base of the skull

a) Losing the ability to coordinate movements to perform simple tasks
b) The failure of grabbing and reaching an object
c) Lightedheadness
d) Rapid body movements will be impossible
e) You will find it impossible to walk
f) Tremors
g) Slurred speech

Legal advice from a personal injury solicitor is necessary in seeking head injury compensation as the complications are too difficult to understand for the layperson.

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