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Saturday, October 22, 2016

How Do Concussions Cause Amnesia?


  
Published on Oct 1, 2016
Amnesia
is a really handy/cliché literary device and the inciting incident for
countless Hanna-Barbera cartoons, but it's also a real, serious
affliction caused by major head trauma. Learn how scrambled neurons can
permanently alter your memory on this week's QQ.

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