Language change after coma

When the Australian man Ben McMahon, 22, woke up from a coma due to a serious car accident, he almost forgot English but used fluent Chinese.

Before the accident, Ben only learned a little Chinese in high school and could not speak fluently this language. After waking up, he wrote in Chinese characters' I love my father ', I love my mother' and speak Chinese like Chinese people.

Ben McMahon speaks Chinese fluently after his coma even though he only learned the speaker before

In contrast, after the coma, this Melbourne city man only spoke a little English and pronounced like a foreigner. Currently Ben has been to China, living in Shanghai.

This is not the first case of language change after coma . A similar story happened with a Croatian young woman in 2010. According to the British Daily Mail and The Telegraph, the 13-year-old girl woke up after a 24-hour coma had forgotten Croatian but used it well. German. Before that, she only learned basic German lessons and watched German TV programs but didn't speak fluently like after a coma. The director of Croatia's Split Hospital Hospital commented on the case: 'We cannot know when recovering from a coma, how the brain reacted.'

Some scientists call this phenomenon 'bilingual aphasia' , according to Discovery magazine, Different languages ​​are stored in different areas of the brain and when certain areas of the language are damaged, the brain works. can switch to another language storage area.

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