Why does a headshot usually mean immediate “turn off” for the brain?
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It seems that most people who talk about bullets miss one crucial part- bullet has a spin. So when it enters the braincase, it not only displaces a huge amount of mater in it’s path, but also creates a) air vortex though which more air is pulled it, b)localised bullet expansion which obliterates surrounding tissue. This in turn means that there are no more neural connections, no synapses, nothing. Just mush of biological matter. Similar as to why you couldn’t run Crysis 3 after detonating a hand grenade in your computer case.
As some have mentioned, when there is no spin in object which penetrates human head, the survival chances are much higher- as in the case of Phineas Gage where a proper metal rod was launched by a point blank explosion though his head. IIRC it took out part of his frontal cortex.
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