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dIoIIoIb t1_jbe33iy wrote

Reply to comment by CrossroadsWoman in Patient with prostate cancer developed an ‘uncontrollable’ Irish accent, showing symptoms consistent with foreign accent syndrome — likely due to his immune system attacking his nervous system by marketrent

you know barely, but you do

it's like if the road you usually take to go to work is suddenly destroyed, so you're forced to take another one that you've almost never taken before, but you're pretty sure it arrives in the same place, eventually. Maybe it's twice as long or it goes through the Irish part of town, but it gets there.

When your brain gets damaged it stops being able to recall certain pieces of information but not others, some of its roads are broken and others aren't, so it has to work with what's left.

Memory is a network, you can completely forget certain things or skills or events while perfectly remembering others. the part of your brain that held "words I commonly use" gets damaged so it resorts to alternatives that is pretty sure mean the same thing

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zzaman t1_jbe691s wrote

I wonder if different people have different parts of towns in their brain, or might we all have an irish/British brain detour

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tacoaboutfox t1_jbed7am wrote

Ive had a few TBIs, the aphantasia is real. I used to study neurology, ironically, now I struggle joining words together.

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