I like to watch videos of people fighting from time to time and kept seeing videos of people getting put to sleep via jaw shot. How does this work? How does the brain immediately go unconscious like that? What causes the brain to shut off so quickly?
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They’ve done studies in monkeys. Don’t read on if you’re squeamish.
They worked out that you can clamp a skull in place and essentially hit it as hard as you want, and, unless there is a penetrating injury, they generally won’t lose conciousness.
When the head can move the forced required to cause KO is much lower, due to the skull impacting the inert brain.
This is what happens in most head injuries, and as others have said, the jaw provides a lever for the skull.
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