Had a long chat the other day with a freelancer I work with, and she mentioned her cousin who'd suffered brain damage after a moped accident, and had lost all inhibitions about sex. So, after the crash, he would be chatting to people from work, or at family gatherings, and saying, "Yeah had a good weekend, paid a couple of call girls to come around for sex - how about you?" or "Yeah, just been looking at porn and masturbating" - with no intention of trolling...he'd just lost all sense of social norms.One extreme example he gave was cases of people who've developed tumors in certain parts of the brain and subsequently done things totally out of character for them, like having an affair or killing someone.
There's an interesting clip of Sapolsky talking to Joe Rogan about toxoplasmosis. Apparently it's estimated around half the global population's infected with it and there's an unusually high number of infected people who end up in high speed motor accidents as it can remove inhibitions around risk.Had a long chat the other day with a freelancer I work with, and she mentioned her cousin who'd suffered brain damage after a moped accident, and had lost all inhibitions about sex. So, after the crash, he would be chatting to people from work, or at family gatherings, and saying, "Yeah had a good weekend, paid a couple of call girls to come around for sex - how about you?" or "Yeah, just been looking at porn and masturbating" - with no intention of trolling...he'd just lost all sense of social norms.
Corpsey leafing through the mopeds in a copy of Auto Trader as we speak...Had a long chat the other day with a freelancer I work with, and she mentioned her cousin who'd suffered brain damage after a moped accident, and had lost all inhibitions about sex. So, after the crash, he would be chatting to people from work, or at family gatherings, and saying, "Yeah had a good weekend, paid a couple of call girls to come around for sex - how about you?" or "Yeah, just been looking at porn and masturbating" - with no intention of trolling...he'd just lost all sense of social norms.