Recognizing brain injury

There are several ways to recognize (a previously unnoticed) brain injury.

These ways are often complementary to each other.
Brain injury is difficult to recognize if there are only invisible consequences. People often struggle for years before they make the connection with brain injury.

On this page we placed a number of links to pages on how to recognize brain damage, also for children. The signaling list for children + young people can be downloaded from this page. Our testpage is perhaps the most comprehensive checklist. This is often an eye-opener for partners, family or for the person concerned.

It is good to know that cognitive problems can occur with brain disorders without brain damage.
The checklist can be used to inventory complaints after which it can be decided in consultation with the practitioner whether a neuropsychological examination or further examination is useful.