[MD] IOT: Neuroscience

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  In the mid-19th century a doctor had a patient 
who had suffered a stroke. The patient was unable 
to speak save for one word. The word was ‘Tan’ 
which became his name. When Tan died, the doctor 
discovered damage to the left side of his brain 
and concluded that the ability to speak was housed there.

This is how neuroscience used to work – by 
examining the dead or investigating the damaged – 
but now things have changed. Imaging machines and 
other technologies enable us to see the active 
brain in everyday life, to observe the activation 
of its cells and the mass firing of its neuron batteries.

But what picture of the brain has emerged, how 
has our understanding of it changed and what are 
the implications for understanding that most 
mysterious and significant of all phenomena – the human mind?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime.shtml

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