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The Resilient Brain

Published: June 12, 2021, 11 a.m.

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New experiences actually rewire the brain. So after all we\\u2019ve been through this year, you have to wonder \\u2014 are we different? We consider the "COVID brain" from the perspective of both neuroscience and the arts. Also, we go to Cavendish, Vermont to hear the remarkable story of Phineas Gage, the railroad worker whose traumatic brain injury changed the history of neuroscience.

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Original Air Date: October 10, 2020

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Guests:

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Margo Caulfield \\u2014 David Eagleman \\u2014 llan Stavans

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Interviews In This Hour:

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How Phineas Gage\'s Freak Accident Changed Brain Science \\u2014 \'COVID Brain\' and the New Frontiers of Neuroplasticity \\u2014 The Pandemic and the Poets

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