A Fun Study With A Serious Side: Traumatic Brain Injury in Asterix Comics
Sometimes people do things that seem a bit odd but fun! In 2011 a fun study with a serious side about traumatic brain injury was conducted by a group of Neurosurgeons in Germany. The results were published in the European Association of Neurobiological Studies and widely reported since. Why is that special you might ask? Well this experiment looked at the incidence, severity and treatment of traumatic brain injury in the Asterix comic series! Cartoon characters acquiring brain injury. Who or What Are Asterix Comics For those of you who might have missed Asterix comics -I might have if not for a son devoted to them. Including wanting me to cook wild boar in cream sauce! In Australia. This is a series of comics first published in 1959. Set in ancient Rome in 50BC. The main characters are Asterix and his close friend Obelix, fictional soldiers protecting their village of Gaul from the Roman army. Only 34 volumes…