How do you live in a world that makes no sense at all? Every second of your life is an unsolvable puzzle, and how do these little pieces of you make you who you are? do Did you realize that you couldn’t get out?
Such was the life of Lev Zasetzky, who suffered a brain injury while fighting in World War II. The 3,000-page diary that Zasetzky kept after his injury became one of the most valuable and insightful documents on the study of the human brain in the history of biological science. Zasetzky suffered from aphasia, a disorder that impairs people’s ability to understand and communicate. Because of his aphasia, Zasetzky could write but could not read what he wrote or even understand everything he wrote.
Alexander Luria, one of the Soviet Union’s best neuropsychologists, was assigned to look after Zasetsky, but discovered that the young soldier “simply couldn’t write and…suddenly became illiterate.” discovered. Luria correctly pointed out that Zasetzky’s lesion was in “the second major block of the brain, located in the posterior part of the cerebral hemisphere.” This part of the brain’s overall job is to “serve as a building block for a person to receive, process, and retain information from the outside world.”
The exact location of the shrapnel damage meant “a very important feature.” [had] has a severe disability: he [could] Do not immediately integrate his impressions into a coherent whole. his world [became] Fragmented. ”And that is how the world existed for Lev Zasetsky, fragmented. But he didn’t give up. His fascinating stories and brave demeanor can reshape modern understandings of psychology, history, language, communication, and the human spirit.
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