“explosive anger, inability to control impulses, headaches, insomnia - and maybe even impotence”
Maybe he had traumatic gluttony and traumatic lust resulting in traumatic health problems when he was no longer a young man. A gluttonous lusthound is incredibly selfish, and is capable of murderous violence when his WILL is crossed.
So all we need now is an ex-pro-football player to run for and get elected president. I’m trying to figure out which one would be most likely to start lopping off the heads of liberals...
I thought it was syphillis??
This certainly throws a monkey wrench in our plan to replace football as our national sport with jousting.
It is still the official sport of Maryland, though.
Sadly, The Wire was cancelled before it could expose the seedy underbelly of the state's official pastime.
Divorced, beheaded, died. Divorced, beheaded, lived.
He wasn’t gay?
Why you two-timing tramp, you.
I want to know if the Yale researchers even bothered
to consult with Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits on
the matter.
Names that make you go "hmmmm", especially when it is an attack on the history of the Christian world.
Hmmmm, indeed.
I take nothing, NOTHING, a mohametan has to say about anything at face value.
There is always an agenda.
How GD stupid are these people from Yale. King Henry VIII had traumatic brain injury like NFL football players? Henry VIII died from an STD (called “The Poxâ€) — advanced syphilis! Syphilis attacks the brain and nervous system but it hardly qualifies as a traumatic brain injury. What a bunch of nonsense.
Yale research assistants Muhammad Qaiser Ikram and Fazle Hakim Saijad ??????????????????????????????
Hmmmm. Like Phil Spector? It’s possible.
Somebody must pay these idiots to come up with at least one stupid, far-fetched theory every year.
It was late stage syphilis, long before penicillin was available.
I thought everyone knew this?
Are the modern libs trying to rehabilitate the old bastard?
Henry the V8 played linebacker?
Yale.
That used to be a good college.
Was it the asbestos?
An alien virus?
Hillary?
I have heard of other people changing because of brain injury. Some people develop super powers...like a savant.
Read here:
From mullet to math genius after a concussion
And people such as Daniel Tammet (Brain Man) and this man:
Link to Video
Other people have personality changes.
After Brain Injury: The Dark Side of Personality Change Part I
Emotional Problems After Traumatic Brain Injury
I'm sure there are many factors. How hard the person is hit. Where they are hit. How old the person is.
The brain is incredible in what it can do, but also what damage can be done to it, and how that effects each individual person can vary.
Why do we try to create excuses for bad men?
Interesting article.
Other perspectives:
Physical decline
Late in life, Henry became obese, with a waist measurement of 54 inches (140 cm), and had to be moved about with the help of mechanical inventions. He was covered with painful, pus-filled boils and possibly suffered from gout. His obesity and other medical problems can be traced from the jousting accident in 1536, in which he suffered a leg wound. The accident re-opened and aggravated a previous injury he had sustained years earlier, to the extent that his doctors found it difficult to treat. The wound festered for the remainder of his life and became ulcerated, thus preventing him from maintaining the level of physical activity he had previously enjoyed. The jousting accident is also believed to have caused Henry’s mood swings, which may have had a dramatic effect on his personality and temperament.[138][139]
The theory that Henry suffered from syphilis has been dismissed by most historians.[140] A more recent theory suggests that Henry’s medical symptoms are characteristic of untreated type 2 diabetes.[139] Alternatively, his wives’ pattern of pregnancies and his mental deterioration have led some to suggest that the king may have been Kell positive and suffered from McLeod syndrome.[141] According to another study, Henry VIII’s history and body morphology may have been the result of traumatic brain injury after his 1536 jousting accident, which in turn led to a neuroendocrine cause of his obesity. This analysis identifies growth hormone deficiency (GHD) as the source for his increased adiposity but also significant
behavioural changes noted in his later years, including his multiple marriages.[142]
Source: Wikipedia