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So I'm a big fan of the history of science.

I actually think that one of the big tragedies of having so much information available at our fingertips now is that we actually don't go back far enough and look at old papers.

And they have impacts today if we're willing to go back.

For sure. And I certainly don't, you know, there's just too much science out there going on that we don't want to be reinventing the wheel, right? We want to be moving forward, not just

doing studies that have been done 50 years ago that we've forgotten about. And so I kind of pride

myself in having what I think is a pretty decent understanding of the

history of neuroscience, at least in my subfield. And I have to say, I was very surprised to learn

that in fact, our entire field has been ignoring a pretty important contribution by a neuroscientist

from the 1950s that probably would have changed a lot of the things that we think about in terms of the brain.

This is weird to hear because neuroscience is famous for elevating their patient-centered stories.

Like, we know about HM who turned into the patient that Memento is based off.

The film Memento is based off of,

and everyone has heard about Gage with that spike going through his skull.

So how did we miss somebody?

Well, it's not a patient that we missed.

It's a surgeon that we missed.

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