The man with no brain
How can you survive in a world where nothing makes sense? How can you live when your entire life is a puzzle that you cannot solve and even the small pieces you recognize are not able to come out? Lev Zasetsky was a World War II veteran who sustained a brain injury. Zasetsky’s 3,000-page journal, which he kept after his injury, became one of history’s most insightful and valuable texts about the study of human brains. Zasetsky was suffering from aphasia. This is a disorder which affects the ability of a person to communicate and understand. Zasetsky was unable to read or understand his own writing.
Alexander Luria was one of the most accomplished neuropsychologists in the Soviet Union. He was assigned to take care of Zasetsky. Luria found that Zasetsky “simply couldn’t write” and “had suddenly become illiterate”. This part of the brain is responsible for “receiving, processing and retaining the information that a person receives from the outside world.” He didn’t quit. Subscribe to YouTube for more original Popular Science videos.
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