How to Overclock Your Brain and Get It Back to Functioning

"The mind doesn't wear out with use. It actually rusts with disuse," he says. "What I sort of discovered is that these were people whose minds had essentially become incredibly rusty" In an infection, bacteria cross a barrier and then they start to colonize the space in which you're living. And this is also what happens in the mind of people who have brain rot: certain thoughts will start to colonized your mind.