Brains exposed

Well here is the science project I promised to show you. We have just started reading Gifted Hands - a book about neurosurgeon Ben Carson. While I don't agree with some of the emphasis of the book, it is very encouraging and insightful into the struggle to achieve, the impact of the work of doctors into saving lives... and into the actual working of the brain - impact on life...

...which lead us to this project...

A brain hat! Usually covered by a great deal of fluid, tissue and bone - this one (can be printed out... includes instructions, etc!!) has been made to show the location of various parts


of the brain.

Would recommend the above site - though I haven't really looked too in depth at it - looks like a lot of science activities/printables... planning on making the digestion system t-shirt sometime in next month or two.... looks fun.

So incredible how God wired our brains. Did you know there are people who have had a whole hemisphere of their brain removed in surgery (due to tumours, injuries, being co-joined at birth, etc.) and the other side of the brain takes over with minimal (overall) impact?? Somehow the other hemisphere learns to do what the removed hemisphere once did...


On the flip side - teeny weeny little slips of the knife during brain surgery can also impact vision, hearing, emotions, muscle movement... you name it!

No wonder God designed it to have so much fluid, tissue and bone to protect it!