‘Not all doctors are as certain of the link as Omalu, however. “There’s no research that shows a clean connection between head injury and violence, per se,” says L.A.-based sports neurologist Vernon Williams.’
Actually, there is, but most doctors are not yet aware of the connection between the ears and the brain, especially the right ear in regard to left-brain function and especially the left ear in regard to right-brain function. As a result of healing one of our sons from schizophrenia I discovered that the left-brain must dominate the right-brain in their integrative processes for the person to be capable of behaving normally. The stream of sound energy from the right ear normally produces that dominance. An injury to the skull severe enough to affect the bony covering of the middle and inner ear can injure the tiny stapedius muscle attached to it (the tympanic membrane at the pyramid) and to the “gate” (stapes) that transmits the sound stream into the inner ear and on into the brain. That muscle is susceptible to numerous other assaults, e.g., infections, loud noise, hormonal changes, insufficient oxygen, and blunt trauma. Many chemicals, whether ingested, inhaled, or absorbed through the skin can reach that muscle — or both of them in each ear simultaneously. Damage to the left ear can produce the range of depressions from mild to suicidal. Damage to the right ear can produce the right-ear spectrum from dyslexic syndrome to obsessive-compulsive behavior, bipolarity II and I, and schizophrenia or autism. Damage to both ears can layer those problems. Furthermore, audio deficits at 500 Hertz in both ears will cause aggression, which also is relevant to your article.
Once you understand the differing functions of the two halves of the brain, you can understand why a person with a right-ear injury can become violent. The left-brain, deprived of its normal stream of high-frequency sound energy, can no longer dominate the seething ocean of sensory data and memories and primal urges and emotions that characterize the right-brain. Everything we mean by “Hell” derives from the unleashing of such associations in the absence of a fully rational, dominant left-brain.
It is possible that some of the brain changes you are discussing are caused by loss of normal transmission of sound energy to the brain by damaged ears, although the ones I have mentioned are the ones I know best. I have twice counseled individuals with psychosis (diagnosed schizophrenia) following a head injury. One responded to a minuscule dosage of risperidone (that was before I realized music could have cured him) and the other is responding to focused music therapy. All of the problems I have mentioned, some of which have the same symptoms of memory loss, confusion, losses of self-control, rages, etc. usually will respond to high-frequency music listened to through headphones. I recommend treating one ear at a time (focused listening) to aid in diagnosis unless the person is suicidal, which would require attention first to the left ear. The pioneers in this field, Alfred Tomatis and Guy Berard, used binaural methods.
All of this is not to say the brain hasn’t been damaged. But music therapy can go a long way towards helping an injured brain to recover, while it also repairs the ears.
