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Functional difficulties may result from CNS damage in more than one domain, but common functional difficulties by domain include:[38][3][42][43] (This is not an exhaustive list of difficulties.)
Achievement — Learning disabilities
Adaptive behavior — Poor impulse control, poor personal boundaries, poor anger management, stubbornness, intrusive behavior, too friendly with strangers, poor daily living skills, developmental delays
Attention — Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), poor attention or concentration, distractible
Cognition — Mental retardation, confusion under pressure, poor abstract skills, difficulty distinguishing between fantasy and reality, slower cognitive processing
Executive functioning — Poor judgment, Information-processing disorder, poor at perceiving patterns, poor cause and effect reasoning, inconsistent at linking words to actions, poor generalization ability
Language — Expressive or receptive language disorders, grasp parts not whole concepts, lack understanding of metaphor, idioms, or sarcasm
Memory — Poor short-term memory, inconsistent memory and knowledge base
Motor skills — Poor handwriting, poor fine motor skills, poor gross motor skills, delayed motor skill development (e.g., riding a bicycle at appropriate age)
Sensory integration and soft neurological problems — Sensory integration (SI) disorders, tactile defensiveness, under-sensitive to stimulation
Social communication — Intrude into conversations, inability to read nonverbal or social cues, "chatty" but without substance