Is Your Brain Really Necessary? : Video : This intriguing documentary traces the physiological and mental development of three patients, parts of whose brains were demonstrably destroyed as a result of congenital malformation, injury, or disease. The astonishing discovery, made possible by brain scans, is that some people who appear normal or above normal in intelligence, may have below average brain volumes. The program shows how brain scans make it possible to see which areas of the brain are being used and for what functions and points out how new insights into the phsyiology of the brain are calling into question what had previously been accepted as scientific certainties. (50 minutes)


			Is Your Brain Really Necessary?

This intriguing documentary traces the physiological and mental development of three patients, parts of whose brains were demonstrably destroyed as a result of congenital malformation, injury, or disease. The astonishing discovery, made possible by brain scans, is that some people who appear normal or above normal in intelligence, may have below average brain volumes. The program shows how brain scans make it possible to see which areas of the brain are being used and for what functions and points out how new insights into the phsyiology of the brain are calling into question what had previously been accepted as scientific certainties. (50 minutes)

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