| If a person suffers a traumatic brain injury, whether | | | | being inherently colored. Although most people with |
| as a result of a fall, an auto accident, an assault, or | | | | synesthesia are born with the condition, it sometimes |
| other causes, he or she may find that life is changed | | | | occurs as a result of traumatic brain injury. |
| forever. The brain is an extremely complex organ | | | | Cotard Delusion |
| which is still incompletely understood, and sometimes | | | | A person with Cotard Delusion following a brain injury |
| a brain injury can result in some debilitating and/or | | | | believes that he or she is dead or does not exist. |
| bizarre effects on the way a person sees and | | | | The person may believe that he or she perished in |
| interprets the world. Although a complete list of the | | | | the accident that resulted in the brain injury, or may |
| possible brain disorders following a brain injury is | | | | believe that he or she actually never existed and |
| beyond the scope of a single article, here are a few | | | | was, instead, a figment of others' imagination. This |
| interesting possible outcomes of a traumatic brain | | | | delusion can induce a person to perform detrimental |
| injury. | | | | acts, such as ceasing to go to a job, failing to |
| Dysarthria | | | | maintain relationships, or even inflicting self-injury to |
| Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder that results | | | | prove their nonexistence. |
| from brain injury or nerve injury in which a person | | | | Capgras Delusion |
| has less control over his or her speech than he or | | | | In Capgras Delusion, a person disbelieves not his or |
| she used to have. A loss of control over the lips, | | | | her own existence, but the existence of those close |
| tongue, throat or lungs might be the cause, and the | | | | to him or her. The person believes that family and |
| type of dysarthria experienced can be of many | | | | friends have been replaced with exact duplicates. It |
| different types. For example, spastic dysarthria is | | | | might be called the "Pod Person Disorder," because |
| where the affected system experiences spasms of | | | | nothing can convince these people that their loved |
| activity, while flaccid dysarthria is where the affected | | | | ones really are their loved ones and not imposters. |
| system loses the ability to act. Disarthric speech | | | | As a result of the delusion, sufferers may shun or |
| may be slurred or whispered, and may be | | | | even injure loved ones to prove their state as |
| accompanied by drooling, especially in the case of | | | | imposters. For example, in 1989, a Capgras sufferer |
| flaccid dysarthria. | | | | in Missouri beheaded his stepfather, whom he |
| Synesthesia | | | | believed to be a robot, intended to discover batteries |
| Synesthesia is a neurological condition that sometimes | | | | and electronics inside. |
| results from brain injury in which a person | | | | Even without any of these conditions, recovery from |
| experiences one type of sensory or cognitive | | | | a brain injury can be difficult and/or expensive. If |
| experience with a second sensory or cognitive | | | | you have suffered a brain injury as a result of the |
| stimulus. For example, a person might hear a sound | | | | neglect or misconduct of others, you deserve |
| and automatically see a color. In another form of | | | | compensation for your injury. |
| the condition, letters or numbers are perceived as | | | | |