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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 โWho am I?โ There was a fantastic section that looked at the uniqueness of the brain.๐ง
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. ๐๐ค๐งซ

We got to see the brainbow mouse, whose brain cells glow in a range of colours under the right light. ๐ง ๐๐
We read about how London taxi driversโ brains changed as they learned โthe knowledgeโ. With the back of their hippocampus becoming larger than normal. ๐
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 ๐คฏ
We ran out of time so only got to see half of the exhibition. Weโll be back again. Next stop DNA, genes, emotions, and a lot more. โค๏ธโ