The soldier wakes up seeing everything turned upside down.

A republican soldier who participated in the Spanish Civil War in 1938, He was shot in the back of the head and woke up seeing the world upside down. The discovery is described in a study published in the scientific journal Neurologia, led by neuropsychologist Alberto García Molina of the Institut Guttmann in Spain.

After being shot in the back of the head, which struck him in the brain, the man was found unconscious on the ground and was transported to the Valencia provincial hospital. When he regained consciousness two weeks after the explosion, he told doctors he was experiencing unusual sensations.

Man, Patient M, named Patient M, reported that her vision appeared to be contralateral and upside down. – for example, he claimed he was confused when he saw ‘people working upside down on a pier’. The situation was not limited to his sight, as the soldier also experienced the same sensations with touch and hearing..

Despite this, the condition did not cause any adverse effects on the eyes and not just any negative symptoms. He could read letters and numbers in normal and reverse, as well as read the clock from any angle. Other symptoms included funky object colors, color blindness, and triple objects.

Patient M: vision and backward sensing

Prior to Molina’s work, Patient M’s brain had been studied by Spanish neuroscientist Justo Gonzado for nearly 50 years. At the time, he claimed the organ was seen as a collection of ‘little boxes’ with different functions; that is, he concluded that the injury had scattered these ‘little boxes’ and caused complete confusion.

All aside, Gonzalo He determined that patient M has three syndromes: central, paracentral, and marginal.. The first is responsible for interrupting several senses; the second does the same, but the effects are not evenly distributed over the senses; Finally, it marginally affects some specific senses and brain pathways.

“The brain was seen as little boxes. When you replace a box, there was a supposedly tangible lack. Modular theories couldn’t explain the problems that arose with patient M, so he started to break away from the hegemonic view of how the brain works and create his own theory of brain dynamics,” said Gonzalo. El Pais.

In the latest study, Molina says she was surprised to study the patient’s history as she was able to lead a normal life without major difficulties. Even Gonzalo’s daughter, Isabel Gonzalo-Fonrodona, helped with the new research.