This must have hurt...or not

[ubiqe]

4 cm into his brain and no damaged ocurred? GET REAL!

Very probable looking at the site of injury. One of the most famous neurological patients, Phineas Gage, had a metal rod come through his eyesocekt into the brain and he was totally fine. Except for some small changes in personality. :wink:
Brain does not hurt. And you don't have that many mechano-receptors in your mouth roof - it's the most insensitive part of your body - for the temperature at least, so maybe also for pressure.

[Yao]

It's possible, parts of your brain can even be removed without it having any real effects on you. There even used to be a treatment, I don't know for what it was, but they'd remove part of the frontal lobes of your brain. Consequence was that the characters were changed in a negative way though.

That the report doesn't say anything about damage doesn;t mean it isn't there though.

[thesightless]

we only use, what?, 10% of it?

i guess most of the world only uses about 6%

[ubiqe]

It's possible, parts of your brain can even be removed without it having any real effects on you. There even used to be a treatment, I don't know for what it was, but they'd remove part of the frontal lobes of your brain. Consequence was that the characters were changed in a negative way though.

Lobotomy that was. It was intended to IMPROVE your character by removing the control that your overgrown ego (sitting comfortably in your frontal lobes) had over the rest of your mind. Freudianism can be dangerous...

[Garrick]

psychology major, are we?


i don't understand how this guy didn't feel the nail go in, unless he deadened the nerve or something.

[ubiqe]

Yep. I even got a 'Beware - psychologist' T-shirt...