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Colin Kakama Profile picture
Colin Kakama
@BagOfNeurons
Futurist, Self-taught molecular biologist🧬 Founding a startup that's building molecular machines. Talks about science, startups & memes.
Jul 12 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
TIL that neurosurgeons are hardcore bioengineers!!

This kid had a tumor in a sensitive part of their brain which made surgical removal very risky

The surgeons did it anyway after litterally forcing the brain to rearrange its neurons 💀

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1/4 Image An eloquent area is a region of the cortex where damage can lead to significant deficits in language, motor function, etc. So surgical removal of lesions from these areas is not advised

This patient was unlucky and had a tumor exactly here.

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