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What is DCA
Scalp Traumatisms
Strokes: cerebral hemorrhage and brain clots
Other causes
The Aftereffects
Physical aftereffects
Cognitive aftereffects
Communication aftereffects
Behavior aftereffects and emotions
Within the family environment
Adacen responds
Cerebral Damage can affect all the functioning areas of the human body. Consequently, the consequences of a cerebral injury can be very different and complex.
Physical damage
 The most frequent ones are a lack of balance: alterations or an incapacity to maintain standing up, alterations or an incapacity for walking, limitations or alterations in leg movement in one or both limbs, or even to control the trunk and head in situations of rest. Other alterations could a lack of sensibility and movement in some part of the body and the partial or total loss of the senses, such as sight.
Cognitive Damage
 Modification in the capacity for thought, decision-taking or control. For these motives there usually exists difficulties in the learning process, in comprehension, memory or logical thinking.
Communication consequences
When, without there being any physical problem (a lack of mobility in the tongue), there exists some difficulty in expressing oneself or in listening comprehension.
Behavioral and emotional consequences
The consequences in behavior could derive from a lack of inhibition (the person does and says whatever comes into his mind at that moment) or in an excess of inhibition (does not do or say anything without being asked). At an emotional level the alterations come with greater irritation, feeling, and impatience and, above all, with extreme ups and downs.
Within the family atmosphere
The family is also affected. The changes that this new situation has created, and its sudden appearance, also tends to produce a breakdown in the family ambience.