At the crash site, EMTs gave her a score of six on the Glasgow Coma Scale, indicating profound brain trauma. She was rushed, unconscious, into Victoria General Hospital’s trauma center, where doctors and nurses worked to save her life. Sophie asked staff how old they were, whether they had children, what their most interesting cases had been. After he dropped off the texts on neuroscience and brain anatomy, she “read away into the night,” she remembered. Sophie’s doctors believed that her traumatic brain injury (TBI) affected her executive functioning, including her inhibition control.

Source: New York Times August 16, 2022 17:23 UTC