Dr. Caroline Leaf

So I have to tell you that there was, we talk about neuroscience, it was more neurology and it was neuroscience, but it was just, it was very much in its infancy.

And it was believed that if you had damaged your brain, well, that's it.

And I remember one of the lecturers talking about this and I thought, this is not right because our mind is always changing.

Our experiences are changing.

Our day-to-day life is so totally different all the time.

So it cannot be that the organ through which the mind works

and uses, if the mind is changing, obviously the organ that the mind uses would change as well.

So I challenged the professor, one of the professors, and they said, I said, how can it be?

And they said, well, it is the way it is.

And I said, well, I don't think that is the case.

And they said, well, that's a ridiculous question.

And I said, is it really a ridiculous question?

And I started, I said, let me work with the worst, give me the worst scenario.

What would be the worst scenario that I could use to show you that I believe I'm right?

And they said, well, work with traumatic brain injury, because once your brain's traumatized from a brain injury from a car accident, well, that's it.

You know, you can't really do anything about that.

You just literally have to teach the patients to compensate.

So I started there.

I started working with traumatic brain injury.

And one of my first subjects for one of my first research studies was a student of 16 years.