May 26, 2008
Like a bullet in the head:
Neurophilosophy has collected some of the most unusual cases of penetrating brain injury from the medical literature, with x-rays that illustrate how some of the most curious objects can end up on the wrong side of the bony brain protector.
You may recognise a couple that we've noted before on Mind Hacks, but this is a far more complete and frankly quite surprising collection.
The most amazing is the case of a "32-year-old Caucasian male with a history of repeated self-injury drilled a hole in his skull using a power tool and subsequently introduced intracerebrally a binding wire from a sketchpad".
A striking, and, in some places, stomach churning collection of case studies.
Link to Neurophilosophy on unusual penetrating brain injuries.
