Newly detailed nerve links between brain and other organs shape thoughts, memories, and feelings

by Emily Underwood

In the 1930s, neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield pioneered a daring new kind of cartography. As a stenographer took notes, he delicately touched an electrode to the exposed brains of his awake, consenting patients and asked what they felt as electrical current hit different areas. (source: sciencemag.org)

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