brain damage
    n 1: injury to the brain that impairs its functions (especially
         permanently); can be caused by trauma to the head,
         infection, hemorrhage, inadequate oxygen, genetic
         abnormality, etc.

	

	50 Moby Thesaurus words for "brain damage":
   aberration, abnormality, alienation, brainsickness, clouded mind,
   craziness, daftness, dementedness, dementia, derangement,
   disorientation, distraction, folie, furor, insaneness, insanity,
   irrationality, loss of mind, loss of reason, lunacy, madness,
   mania, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease,
   mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental illness,
   mental instability, mental sickness, mind overthrown, mindsickness,
   oddness, pixilation, possession, queerness, rabidness,
   reasonlessness, senselessness, shattered mind, sick mind, sickness,
   strangeness, unbalance, unbalanced mind, unsaneness, unsound mind,
   unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, witlessness