Over the years, our Atlanta, Georgia brain injury attorneys at Finch McCranie, LLP have handled many brain injury litigation cases involving all kinds of personal injury accidents. In many cases, our personal injury lawyers have successfully filed lawsuits and obtained settlements greater than a million dollars for brain injury clients who were injured in car collisions, tractor-trailer and heavy truck accidents, medical malpractice cases, and because of defective products.

What is Acquired Brain Injury?
An acquired brain injury is a brain injury that is not congenital, hereditary, or caused by birth trauma. An acquired brain injury usually leads to a change in brain activity and severe, moderate, or mild impairment in at least one area, such as language and speech communication, cognition, concentration and attention, memory, thinking, reasoning, physical functions, information processing, and psychosocial behavior.

An acquired brain injury occurs on a cellular level in the brain. It can therefore affect cells in the other areas—unlike traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) that affect only specific areas. The symptoms that accompany an acquired brain injury are similar to the symptoms associated with a TBI—although people with acquired brain injuries tend to experience certain difficulties more often and to a greater extent. These difficulties can include cognitive impairment (such as memory), spending a longer period of time in a vegetative state, and serious behavioral problems, such as psychosis, combativeness, depression, muscle movement disorders, and hostility.

There are several kinds of acquired brain injuries:

Hypoxic Brain Injuries occur when the brain does not get enough oxygen. This kind of injury can occur when not enough blood is flowing to the brain. This type of injury can occur when a person has a stroke.

Anoxic Brain Injuries occur when the brain does not get any oxygen. Brain cells are unable to function properly and start dying when they don't get enough oxygen.

Acquired brain injuries can be caused by near drowning, airway obstruction, electrical shock, strangulation, head trauma, neck trauma, heart attack, vascular disruption, infectious disease, aneurysm, seizure disorder, toxic exposure, and a number of personal injury accidents, such as car accidents, fall accidents, motorcycle collisions, bus accidents, truck crashes, pedestrian accidents, and medical malpractice incidents.

• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Levels of Brain Injury
• Types of TBI

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