How would traumatic events effect the brain physically?

I'm trying to figure out the level of trauma required to have physical brain problems relating to trauma with out actually hitting your head.

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Maryam Bham
Nov 28, 2017

Phineas Gage

Explanation:

  • Was a railway worker that was seen as rational and calm
  • Had a metal rod go through his brain and sever his frontal lobe from the rest of his brain
  • Although he survived his entire personality changed to become violent and irrational

This showed that personality is controlled by the frontal lobe of the brain and once that is severed from the rest of the brain then it will change who you are.

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