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Brain: Decoding Messages

By Janice VanCleave

When your skin is touched, nerves at the surface of your skin send messages to your brain. In this articles, information is given about how the brain can be tricked into incorrectly processing nerve messages.

Filed Under: Biology Tagged With: dentist, dentist numbs mouth, Morse Code, nerves, telegraph system

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