when someone gets knocked unconscious, what exactly is happening to their body and brain when they “go to sleep”?
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Your brain is basically firm Jello resting inside your skull, resting on a rather thin connection to the brain stem to the spine.
When the head is moved violently, the brain moves around in the skull. … That twisting and pulling can cause brain circuits to break, or lose their insulation, or get kinked up, and that shuts off parts of the brain. If the part of the brainstem responsible for consciousness is affected, then you would be knocked out.
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