Changeable Brain: What Cases of Traumatic Brain Injury Teach Us About the Mind

Brain injuries can result in highly specific and surprising changes in behaviour that have revealed to us how the mind works.

The brain is the most complicated object in the known universe. After spending millennia trying to understand our ever-changing world, the brain is now turning its capacities for reasoning, remembering, and understanding inward, as it tries to understand itself.

The biggest breakthroughs in neuroscience have come mostly by accident. These accidents didn’t happen in r...