A condition characterized by long-standing brain dysfunction or damage, usually of three months duration or longer. Potential etiologies include BRAIN INFARCTION; certain NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; ANOXIA, BRAIN; ENCEPHALITIS; certain NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; metabolic disorders (see BRAIN DISEASES, METABOLIC); and other conditions.
    

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Brain damage and the mind / Moyra Williams.

Assessment of organic intellectual impairment / John McFie.

The man with a shattered world : the history of a brain wound / AR. Luria ; translated from the Russian by Lynn Solotaroff ; with a foreword by Oliver Sacks.

Brain repair / Donald G. Stein, Simón Brailowsky, Bruno Will.

Neuroethics in practice / edited by Anjan Chatterjee, Martha J. Farah.

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Brain Damage, Chronic

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Brain damage and the mind / Moyra Williams.

Assessment of organic intellectual impairment / John McFie.

The man with a shattered world : the history of a brain wound / AR. Luria ; translated from the Russian by Lynn Solotaroff ; with a foreword by Oliver Sacks.

Brain repair / Donald G. Stein, Simón Brailowsky, Bruno Will.

Neuroethics in practice / edited by Anjan Chatterjee, Martha J. Farah.