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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from How StuffWorks.com.

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb.

And I'm Julie Douglas.

And this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind does, in fact, deal with the brain, the physical aspect of the mind, and some rather radical things that have and can be done to it.

Like drilling a hole in it?

Yes. Or particularly drilling a hole in it. Yes.

Or particularly drilling a hole in the skull to create a pathway to the brain.

Yes, that kind of a cranial release point.

Yeah, I mean, we are talking about trepination,

which is something that has been performed since prehistoric times,

and we'll get more into that.

But it's pretty much mostly associated with witch doctors,

but we're going to talk about it today in a medical sense, a historical sense,

and what it may or may not have to do with Alzheimer's.

Yes.

I do want to just go ahead and get this out of the way right now,

and we'll probably touch on this some more.

But no matter what you hear in this episode, do not drill a hole in your skull or the skulls of anyone you know.

It's a bad idea.

Best left to professionals of that.

You know, we have cautioned you guys a lot before we've talked about like you get stung

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