Inside Your Brain: Ten Discoveries That Reveal How the Brain Works. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Inside Your Brain: Ten Discoveries That Reveal How the Brain Works

The human brain is famously complex and difficult to understand. The brain is also essential to how we function—so much so, that you can't simply poke a stick at it to see what happens. However, if you accidentally poked a stick through your brain, it turns out there’s a lot you can learn. . . .Inside Your BrainThe ancient Egyptians discovered in battle that the brain was more important than they'd thought; Luigi Galvani sent electric shocks through dead frogs' legs and uncovered how brain cells work; Phineas Gage's unfortunate accident on the railroads revealed that you can survive a metal rod through the head, while some unwitting kittens helped us understand how our brain develops.Inside Your Brain

Lucy Ann Unwin is a children's author who previously worked as a journalist and presenter for the BBC. Follow her on X @lucyannunwin.

Prof. Caswell Barry is professor of neuroscience at UCL in London. He has a PhD in neuroscience and runs his own lab.

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