Eventually the whole family was in an uproar. For example, I made rules that everybody had to be in bed by 9:30 PM, that all lights had to be out, and that no noise of any kind was permitted after that time. I remember laying down some impossible rules for all of us. Noise was hard for me to take, and I wanted the place to be kept quiet, which was an impossibility in a small house with three youngsters in it. My brain would simply overload, and I would have to go off into my room to get away. During the first year, I could not take too much stimulation from other people.
I had a hair-trigger temper that could ignite instantly into rage over the most trivial incident.
I couldn’t read even the simplest sentence without forgetting the beginning before I got to the end. I had begun the painful task of recognizing and accepting my physical, mental, and emotional deficits. What is it like to be brain injured? Fred Linge, a clinical psychologist with a degree in brain research, wrote this description 12 years after his traumatic brain injury occurred: In the second it took for my car to crash head-on, my life was permanently changed, and I became another statistic in what has been called “the silent epidemic.” During the next months, my family and I began to understand something of the reality of the experience of head injury. Traumatic brain injuries are the leading cause of both death and disability among children and teenagers (Cassidy et al., 2004). Studying Brain and Behavior in Modern Humans Fallacies of H uman Brain-Size Comparisons Culture Focus on D isorders: Learning D isabilitiesĪch year a reported 80,000 people in the United States of America experience long-term disability from complications related to head trauma (Brain Injury Association, 2002). Human Evolution H umans: Members of the Primate Order Australopithecus: O ur D istant Ancestor The First H umansĮvolution of the Human Brain Brain Size and Behavior W hy the H ominid Brain Enlarged Perspectives on Brain and Behavior Aristotle and Mentalism D escartes and D ualism Focus on N ew Research: The Origins of Spoken Language D arwin and MaterialismĮvolution of Brain and Behavior Origin of Brain Cells and Brains Classification of Life Evolution of Animals with N ervous Systems The Chordate N ervous System Left: Oliver Meckes/Ottawa/Photo Reseachers. Why Study Brain and Behavior? Focus on D isorders: Linking Brain Function to Brain Injury W hat Is the Brain? Gross Structure of the N ervous System W hat Is Behavior?
1 What Are the Origins of Brain and Behavior? Focus on D isorders: Traumatic Brain Injury
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