It's by far the most frequent cause of death in children under 15, although the statistics are generally very high in the under-45 age group. On top of this there are a large number of strokes, which can also be accompanied by brain injury. It can happen to anyone, suddenly, out of a clear blue sky, changing the person's life forever.
What happens in the brain?
The human brain is the most complicated structure known to man. Via billions of nerve cells, it constantly receives signals from outside and from within, processes them, stores them, and passes them on. Nerve cells do not communicate in isolation but in a sort of conference call with thousands of other cells, whereby the participants change all the time in periods of seconds. In this way the brain controls our organs, our movements, our behavior, our thoughts and feelings - all simultaneously and completely automatically, without our assistance, and without us even being aware of it. The brain is our language and learning center with limitless storage capacity for experience, sensation, learning. And it's all interconnected, unlike in a computer, which stores data neatly side by side. The memory grows with ever new links, new information becomes old, and is assigned to the familiar. We notice this when a word suddenly reminds us of something we thought we had forgotten.
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