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Car Accident Can Leave You With Brain Damage

A Bucks County car accident injury is always traumatic, but a brain injury that can leave someone basically unable to live their life, is tragic. Bucks County personal injury lawyer Michael L. Saile, Jr. represents many individuals who have suffered brain damage due to a car accident. Depending on where the brain injury is determines how severe the brain damage is. There are different types and causes of brain damage following a PA or NJ car accident.

Types of Brain Damage

• Aphasia - This is the type of brain damage that affects a person's ability to communicate. This can mean that a person is unable to form a sentence either through voice or on paper. This could also mean that the injured person has lost all ability to recognize speech itself. Aphasia affects the frontal lobe of the brain.

• Visual Neglect - With this type of brain damage, information that is separated and interpreted on one side of the brain is rejected. This means that the patient only has the function of one eye - because the part of the brain receiving visual signals from the other eye is not working. This may cause patients to only recognize the existence of half of things such as paintings and plates of food.

• Amnesia - Brain damage of this sort affects memory and is probably the most well-known type of brain damage. Amnesia is caused by damage to the frontal lobe area of the brain and leaves the patient with memory blanks when trying to refer to past life experiences.

• Agnosia - This is a rare type of brain damage because it leaves a patient able to see everything around them, but they do not recognize a familiar surrounding, person, object. Brain damage of this kind is a malfunction that causes the patient not to be able to place a person, object or surrounding.

Causes of Brain Damage

• Lack of blood - The body can only survive without oxygen for four minutes. After that, the brain damage is so severe that there is minimal chance of survival. Things that could cause the brain to be deprived of oxygen are a stroke, or the lack of breathing, both of which can occur in the course of a PA auto accident.

•Trauma to the brain - a blow to the head, as it is often called, causes structural damage to the skull. Since the skull protects the brain, an injury to the skull could decrease its ability to protect the brain from injury, thus causing brain damage.

Both a sufficient blow to the head and lack of blood to the brain can be the result of a severe car accident. If you or a loved one has suffered any type of brain injury from a PA or NJ car accident you will want to discuss your right to compensation with an experienced local car accideny lawyer. For more information, call the Bucks County personal injury Law Firm of Saile & Saile LLP. Order a FREE copy of our PA Car Accident Book for immediate answers to your car accident questions.