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Beauty of the Brain

When the brain is working well, the different parts are connected by long fibers called axons (see photo 2). But when the brain is damaged (as in this image from a patient who suffered a stroke in a part of the brain called the thalamus), the connections break down.

Courtesy of Henning U. Voss

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Photos from: "Beauty of the Brain" »