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[FunkyBomb]

The occipital lobe, located at the back of the brain, controls a number of things. One of them is sight, which is why you sometimes see stars if the back of your head is struck.

The lizardman punches you in the head from behind with his left hand!
It is broken!
Your left ear is bruised!
Pinpoints of light flash before your eyes!

[Skizelo]

The Giant punches you in the head!
It is broken!
Your Broca's Area is cut!
Ggglfh fahhdn laydhc!

I haveve just spent five minutes finding out which part of the brain is connected to speech.

[Granite26]

DF is an extremely educational game, both in terms of design and research for the discussions.

[korora]

Broca's area being damaged reduces your ability to form sentences, but you still have access to words in your lexicon. 

The Giant punches you in the head!
It is broken!
Your Broca's Area is cut!
The ... ah... Giant ... uh ... ah ... Giant ... uh ... punch!

If you damage Wernicke's area, on the other hand, you can still form syntax just fine, but lexical access is difficult, so you fill in words you can't access with the wrong words or with gibberish.

The Giant punches you in the head!
It is broken!
Your Wernicke's Area is cut!
The Giant punches you in the kitten!
It is manly!

[Skizelo]

Huh, turns out five minutes on wikipedia doesn't make you an expert. Who knew?
ANYWAY, how about
"♪Your Broca's Area is cut!
Your Wernickes Area is mangled!♫"

[G-Flex]

I know other people have said this, but having a broken skull (or jaw, or whatever) isn't necessarily a death sentence. After all, people in the stone age were doing really haphazard trepanning (think: drilling a hole in somebody's skull, presumably to solve some sort of medical issue) with ancient, simple tools, and even those guys managed to apparently live for a while afterwards.

[Techhead]

Sometimes. They SOMETIMES lived for a while afterwards.
If it reaches your brain, you die near instantly. If you lose to much blood, you die pretty soon. If you get an infection, you die in a short while.

[Jetman123]

Sometimes. They SOMETIMES lived for a while afterwards.
If it reaches your brain, you die near instantly. If you lose to much blood, you die pretty soon. If you get an infection, you die in a short while.

It depends on a lot of things - whether you hit the main cavernous areas or blood vessels in the brain and break them, how much brain tissue is destroyed (again, the brain can use unused areas to take over the function of these) and how long the skull is exposed to open air or toxins. A properly bandaged and set broken skull is easily recoverable from. It's really a bit of a toss up. Think of it like rolling a dice and adding or subtracting a few factors for someone who knows how to bandage over a broken skull, how fast you get the skull wrapped, whether you get it wrapped at all, how long it's exposed, whether the environment you're in has lots of contaminants...

Of course, these guys were drilling into the hole to let the evil spirits out into the air, so I doubt that they bandaged them for a while. xD

Awesome discussion we have going here - even just putting back of the head strikes making you see stars, or falling over doing the same, and making you blind for a round - that would be awesome flavor right there. Dwarves might even throw tantrums randomly if their frontal lobes are damaged.

[Neonivek]

Is it just me or is this becoming a discussion of if more Complex Brains should be added to Dwarf Fortress to make Brain injuries more interesting?

[Techhead]

I was referring to the dangers involved in trepanning, not the dangers of having your skull fractured like an eggshell.