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Is a brain injury/ brain damage considered to be the same as a mental illness?
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No: A brain injury/brain damage occurs as the result of trauma to the brain. This may be include physical trauma, hypoxia (lack of oxygen), stroke. When physicians use the term mental illness, this refers to a psychiatric problem.
Answered 6/29/2019
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