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Can a stroke or closed head injury directly affect your personality?
10 doctors weighed in across 3 answers
Yes: There are areas in brain that controls emotions, impulse, social appropriateness, temper - so people can have rage, impulse control issues, disinhibition, outbursts, difficulty coping.
Answered 7/20/2012
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Absolutely: One would think that in this modern age, people would have this basic understanding that the brain is the seat of the personality.
Answered 9/28/2016
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Yes: Particularly if there was damage to the frontal lobes.
Answered 6/9/2017
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