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Article: The brain: what's going on in there? (includes related articles)(Cover Story)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- October 1, 1995
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The human brain.
For ages, people have wondered how it works. From prehistoric healers who drilled holes into living skulls to medieval scientists who dissected stolen corpses, investigators have spent centuries searching for answers. Their progress was discouraging. Brain scientists had to wait on the sidelines as other researchers split the atom and mapped the moon. They needed better ways to explore the human brain.
Now, at last, the ways are here.
By combining computer technology with sensitive scanning equipment, scientists can finally watch the brain as it works. In the last 10 years they have learned more about the brain than in all previous ...