In the study of anatomy, the brain represents what outer space did to Captain Kirk of Star Trek's USS Enterprise: the final frontier. We are learning more all the time, and yet the brain remains an area of great mystery.
Aphasia: The Cruelest Language Barrier
Imagine the following scenario: You wake up one morning and instead of speaking English, everyone around you--including your family and friends--is speaking Hungarian. This is a problem because you don't speak Hungarian and you don't have a clue what they're saying.
Emotions Located In The Brain
Emotions, those simple little things that tug at our 'heart-strings,? and are said to separate us from the lower animals. Yet, they have baffled and befuddled scientists, poets and scholars since before recorded history. Why does a man love this woman (or man), and not this one? How is it that a grown man can be reduced to a blubbering child at the memory of his departed mother? Why do some people faint at the sight of Michelangelo's Statue of David?
