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January 16, 2010

Patients with no skull are a window on brain activity

I've just clocked a stunning experiment, shortly to be published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, that recorded brain activity from patients who had part of their skull surgically removed for several months and had only flaps of skin between their brain and the outside world.The operation is called a hemicraniectomy and is often used when the brain swells or the pressure builds up inside

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