misc brain factoids
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19th-century pseudoscience that held that a person's mental abilities and character traits could be revealed through an analysis of the bumps on his or her skull.

phrenology

200

The ability of neural systems and brain structures to adapt and change.

plasticity

300

The famous 19th-century railroad worker who accidentally blasted a hole through his frontal lobes and survived, though with a changed personality.

Phineas Gage?

400

An amazing feat that people with split brains can accomplish.

What is drawing two different pictures at the same time?

500

A term pertaining to neurons that used to be something though now is nothing, although it still exists.

What is a synapse

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