Like Dr. Frankenstein, the generals' hearts sank to learn that their creation had got the wrong brain.
Having mistakenly put the wrong brain into his humanoid creation, Dr. Frankenstein asks his assistant, Igor, whose brain he did put in.
But in Bishop's view, the experts have it backwards -- the wrong brain cells are being targeted as killer and victim.
David became a neuroscientist because he was fascinated by Oliver Sacks and his descriptions of the weird, amazing, cool things that go wrong in brains, often as the result of a stroke.
Because the brain provides a sort of scaffolding for the facial features, scientists assumed that if something went wrong in brain development, the face would simply lack structural support and become deformed.
Even though I am physically so bloody healthy that there is not a speck of anything wrong, my brain lingers on.
On the one hand, Katie doing one to America seems wrong, as brain drain is normally a consequence of oppression or moral outrage.
People with the abnormality may have no signs that anything is wrong, but brain scans show what looks like a change in neural connections.
"The fact that you can get a sheep or a mouse that looks normal," said Stuart Newman, a developmental biologist at New York Medical College, "doesn't mean that some subtle things haven't gone wrong in brain development that you wouldn't necessarily notice in a sheep, but you would in a human.
Researchers can use the model, described online today in Science, to better understand how neurons function and what goes wrong in brain disorders.
