Brains Are Weird
June 4th, 2009
A man with no artistic ability becomes a painter after a brain injury. Honestly, if I was starting my undergrad today, I’d do neuroscience…
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This is exactly why I left an AI focus to study neuroscience as an undergraduate and why, after treating countless head injuries as an EMT, I returned to grad school in neurobiology.