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London Science Museum visit

At the weekend I took my kids to the Science Museum in London and I stumbled across a free exhibition called โ€œWho am I?โ€ There was a fantastic section that looked at the uniqueness of the brain.๐Ÿง 


We discovered loads about the brain. How it works, what happens to it when we are asleep, how illness affects it and how it grows. ๐Ÿ›Œ๐Ÿค’๐Ÿงซ

We got to see the brainbow mouse, whose brain cells glow in a range of colours under the right light. ๐Ÿง ๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ


We read about how London taxi driversโ€™ brains changed as they learned โ€œthe knowledgeโ€. With the back of their hippocampus becoming larger than normal. ๐Ÿš•


I got lost in the audio recordings of conversations between Henry Molaison and researchers. Henry had part of his brain โ€“ the hippocampus โ€“ removed to stop the fits he experienced from severe epilepsy. The problem was he could no longer form new memories ๐Ÿคฏ


We ran out of time so only got to see half of the exhibition. Weโ€™ll be back again. Next stop DNA, genes, emotions, and a lot more. โค๏ธโœ…


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