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Place of Birth: Tula Oblast, Russia
About Lev Zasetsky
- Lev Zasetsky (9 August 1920 – 9 September 1993) was a patient who was treated by Russian neuropsychologist Alexander Luria.
- Zasetsky suffered a severe brain injury, losing his ability to read, write, and speak (retrieving desired words was particularly difficult), and suffering impaired vision, memory, and other functions.
- He was notable for the tenacity (and to some extent, success) with which he fought to regain a normal life, and for what the pattern of his deficits helped cognitive scientists to learn about brain function.
- He also wrote a journal of his experience, which itself was extraordinarily difficult for him. He was 23 years old when injured in the Battle of Smolensk on March 2, 1943.
- A bullet entered his left parieto-occipital area, and resulted in a long coma.
- Following this he developed a form of agnosia and became unable to perceive the right side of things.
- Objects he did see often appeared as fragmented pieces rather than whole objects.
- Even the right side of his own body was invisible to him, an experience that remained terrifying even years later.
- Luria, who treated Zasetsky over the course of 26 years, published excerpts from Zasetsky's journal and a detailed case history in The Man with a Shattered World: The History of a Brain Wound.
- Zasetsky died in September 1993 at the age of 73.
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