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Re:What happens if you stick your head in a particle acceler... by klipt on Monday August 09, 2021 @09:42PM (#28124370)
The brain is very plastic. Which is why often the first sign of a brain tumor (including in people working mentally intensive jobs like PhD student) is a seizure, or paralysis, or deafness. All signs that plasticity in some part of the brain has reached its limit.
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Re:What happens if you stick your head in a particle acceler... by exit on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @12:11AM (#28125077)
i don't follow from this why plasticity reaching its limit in some part of the brain manifests overtly as seizure/paralysis/deafness. those sound more like existing pathways being disrupted, as opposed to the ability to form new pathways being inhibited?
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Re:What happens if you stick your head in a particle acceler... by klipt on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @01:56AM (#28125551)
A tumor can get surprisingly big without being noticed because the brain just routes around the damage as the tumor grows. Until it no longer can.
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