Definition: An ill-defined disorder of uncertain nosological validity. The category is designed to include a group of children with severe mental retardation (IQ below 35) who show major problems in hyperactivity and in attention, as well as stereotyped behaviours. They tend not to benefit from stimulant drugs (unlike those with an IQ in the normal range) and may exhibit a severe dysphoric reaction (sometimes with psychomotor retardation) when given stimulants. In adolescence, the overactivity tends to be replaced by underactivity (a pattern that is not usual in hyperkinetic children with normal intelligence). This syndrome is also often associated with a variety of developmental delays, either specific or global. The extent to which the be ...[+++]havioural pattern is a function of low IQ or of organic brain damage is not known.

minimal brain dysfunction syndrome | Strauss' syndrome | minimal brain damage

chronic brain damage

congenital brain damage

brain damage

hemispheric brain damage

Acquired Brain Damage Treatment Centre

Other mental disorders due to brain damage and dysfunction and to physical disease

Other specified mental disorders due to brain damage and dysfunction and to physical disease

To be an organ donor, you have to be declared brain-dead, in the hospital already and on a ventilator. That is required because, although the person is dead, the ventilator keeps blood and oxygen flowing through the organs so that there is very little cell damage and their organs can be retrieved.

Even low consumption can create organic brain damage that results in hyperactivity, impulsivity and even an increased risk of suicide.

Even low consumption can create organic brain damage that results in hyperactivity, impulsivity and even an increased risk of suicide.

I imagine, because of hospital urgency, that this is important in terms of getting the organ, whether it's from someone who died in a motorcycle accident or from some brain dysfunction or damage to the brain.