• NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    It is fairly common for certain types of head trauma to be followed up with personality changes depending on the severity and type of brain injury, usually frontal lobe damage. A lot of people become more paranoid and angry, which often leads to their political views leaning to the far right.

    Here’s an article on the subject. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2020.0137

    I had a traumatic head injury that required brain surgery as a child and it’s never lead to any of those kinds of symptoms, but it wasn’t anything involving the frontal lobe.