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This Professor Really, Really Cares that You Understand Neuroanatomy

posted by cmn32480 on Monday April 20 2015, @10:38AM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-tell-the-zombies dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Prof. Nancy Kanwisher at MIT shaved her head to give her students a 3D roadmap to the parts of the brain and its functions:

The video is an introduction to your cortex. This “large pizza”-sized layer of brain tissue is scrunched up to fit right under your scalp, and it is responsible for all your higher brain functions. Reading? Thinking? Face recognition? Check check check.

Once Kanwisher’s hair all shaved off, the folds of the cortex are drawn onto her skull and a few areas are highlighted and explained. And yes, they even scanned her brain to make sure the highlighted areas of the brain are drawn in the exact position. Intrigued? There are many more videos about the brain at Nancy’s Brain Talks,

There is no information available whether students in the class were subsequently happier about the $43,720 they pay in annual tuition.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by wonkey_monkey on Monday April 20 2015, @11:44AM

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Monday April 20 2015, @11:44AM (#173102) Homepage

    If she really cared, she'd have the top of her head sliced off.

    No commitment, some people.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 20 2015, @11:46AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 20 2015, @11:46AM (#173103) Journal

    Yes, but which section goes with fava beans and a nice chianti? Let's not be hasty, we don't want the brain to get stale while we decide which parts to eat!

    • (Score: 2) by davester666 on Tuesday April 21 2015, @06:20AM

      by davester666 (155) on Tuesday April 21 2015, @06:20AM (#173417)

      sliced is the wrong word. Just have the skull cap removed, so we can really see what's going on.