ABSTRACT
In the third millennium, the useful applications of electricity abound. So accustomed are we to multitasking that we talk on a cell phone while reading e-mail for the few minutes a frozen steak is thawing in a microwave, all interrupted by a beeper . . . The electronic extensions of our brain and body have stretched our abilities which are driven by internal electrochemical reactions. The complicated but finite digital real world processing of information has retrained our infinite minds. No longer do we plan and work in a linear sequence. The cerebrum mimics computer brains. We think in parallel circuits while racing forward and backward to amplify the truth that emerges. But just as sophisticated modern computers can crash and lose data, the human brain can be seriously injured, electrically and structurally, by trauma. Brain trauma in the third millennium comes in two species: (1) blunt head injury from motor vehicle collisions; (2) penetrating trauma from civilian gunshot wounds.
