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Recovering from a Brain Injury

A first-person account. “If you’re the sort of person who has only ever had to deal with colds and cuts, food poisoning and the odd virus…what strikes you most is the glacial pace of recuperation.”

Tim Lusher The Guardian Jun 2010 10min Permalink

Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains

What fragmented reading experiences do to neural circuitry. (It’s not good.)

Nicholas Carr Wired Jun 2010 10min Permalink

Brain Gain

The not-so-underground culture of neuroenhancing drug use, and where it’s headed.

Margaret Talbot New Yorker Apr 2009 40min Permalink

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