Dwayne Godwin is a neuroscientist at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. His Twitter handle is @brainyacts.Jorge Cham draws the comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper at www.phdcomics.com.
This article was originally published with the title "Battered Brains" in SA Mind 24, 2, 80 (May 2013)
doi:10.1038/scientificamericanmind0513-80
ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)
Dwayne Godwin is a neuroscientist at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
Jorge Cham draws the comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper at www.phdcomics.com. He is also co-author of the new book We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe, published by Riverhead Books.
