#brain damage
Study: Leaded gas caused American adults to lose 825M IQ points. Leaded gas was banned in 1996, but exposure to the poison cost Americans born before then several IQ points on average, researchers estimated.
drawing my favourite gays I might cry
Imagine…
Taking a bath with Brian. (Fem!Reader)
(For@tawneybel. Sorry this took me a billion years to post.)
You could tell Brian was stressed when you got home. Although he greeted you kindly, you could practically feel the tension coming off of him. When asked about it, Brian insisted that it was nothing. He was fine.
Whatever it was, he wasn’t ready to talk about it.
“Brian, come here.”
“What is it, Y/N?”
“Come take a bath with me.”
Although the tub was small, the two of you were able to squeeze in close. You had enough room to play around a bit. Brian loosened up as the two of you joked with one another - your banter soon turning more flirtatious.
(NSFW BELOW THE CUT)
The flirting lead to your mouths meeting hungrily. Brian ran his hands along any part of your skin he could easily reach - your back, your arms, your legs. He cupped your breast in one hand and let his hand creep up into your hair with the other. He audibly gasped when your hand went between his legs. His dick hardened quickly at your touch, and he started to loosen his grip on you the longer you jerked him off.
“Scoot up a little, and lean back,” you prompted. He didn’t want to move from you, but did as you asked. “Can I?” He knew what you were asking, and nodded in a euphoric haze.
Your fingers pumped inside of him while you stroked his cock in tandem. His eyes were shut tight, and he leaned back to let out a loud moan. His hands gripped the sides of the tub as he groaned out your name.
After he came, Brian slumped forward and twisted his body so that he could rest his head on your shoulder. His breathing gradually slowed and he wrapped his arms around you the best that he could in the narrow space.
‘He’s certainly going to sleep well tonight.’
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The Man Who Had an Iron Spike Go Completely Through his Head and Lived – The Sad and Bizarre Story of Phineas Gage
Phineas Gage is the most famous person to have survived severe damage to the brain. His accident illustrates the first medical knowledge gained on the relationship between personality and brain damage. After his injury, he turned into a completely different person - an entirely new personality.
A well-liked and successful construction foreman, Phineas Gage was contracted to work for the Rutland & Burlington Railroad in Vermont. In September 1848 while Gage was preparing a railroad bed, an accidental explosion of a charge he had set, blew a 13-pound tamping iron straight through his head.
The tamping iron was 1 ¼ inches in diameter. It went in point first under his left cheek bone and completely out through the top of his head, landing about 25 to 30 yards behind him.
Despite his torn scalp and fractured skull, Gage remained lucid and rational during the ride to the hospital and was even able to speak. Cage not only survived losing a chunk of his brain, he was able to returned home in only 10 weeks. Unfortunately, Gage’s recovery was not a complete success.
The once friendly and well-liked man became mean, impatient, rude, and seemed to have lost any empathy toward others. Those who knew him before the accident said he was “no longer Gage.”
Cage worked in several livery stables for the next ten years until 1859 when his health began to fail. He moved to San Francisco to live with his mother and began to experience the epileptic seizures that would lead to his death in 1860. The tale is heart-breaking.
His story is still standard content in medical, anatomy, and psychology textbooks. His skull and the tamping iron are currently on display in the Warren Museum Exhibition Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts.
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