It is fairly common for certain types of head trauma to be followed up with personality changes depending on the severity and type of brain injury, usually frontal lobe damage. A lot of people become more paranoid and angry, which often leads to their political views leaning to the far right.
I had a traumatic head injury that required brain surgery as a child and it’s never lead to any of those kinds of symptoms, but it wasn’t anything involving the frontal lobe.
Evidence shows brain damage tends to make people even LESS empathetic and thus MORE fascist.
Case in point: Fetterman
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For real? Because that didn’t happen to my wife.
It is fairly common for certain types of head trauma to be followed up with personality changes depending on the severity and type of brain injury, usually frontal lobe damage. A lot of people become more paranoid and angry, which often leads to their political views leaning to the far right.
Here’s an article on the subject. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2020.0137
I had a traumatic head injury that required brain surgery as a child and it’s never lead to any of those kinds of symptoms, but it wasn’t anything involving the frontal lobe.
Thanks, that’s informative. Fortunately her frontal lobe was unaffected.