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By Sibu Tripathi: After being shot in the head during the Spanish Civil War in 1938, a 25-year-old man began to see parts of the world upside down. 85 years after that incident, researchers are now revisiting the unique neurological case.. The soldier, who survived the bullet injury was named Patient M by 28-year-old doctor Justo Gonzalo, who attended to his wounds in the military hospital...
What made this case unique was that post his injury, he began to see the objects in front of him upside down when his body was in a particular position..
The science community was initially divided about the functionality of the brain. 85 years after the neurological expert met patient M, his daughter, Isabel Gonzalo, who is a physicist and professor emeritus at the Complutense University of Madrid has relooked at the archival documents from her father to rediscover patient M and the physiological interpretation of Gonzalo's brain dynamics...
Brain dynamics given by Justo Gonzalo state that the brain is organized into multiple layers of processing, each of which plays a different role in language comprehension and production..
Patient M is one more example of this tradition, helping to establish the foundations of the theory of brain dynamics developed by Justo Gonzalo," the paper read...
