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"Make Up Your Mind" premiered October 15, 2002



How Phineas Lost It
Scientists use modern technology to study Phineas Gage's infamous 1848 head injury.


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Why Kids Don't Get It
Adele Diamond's carefully designed experiments reveal how the brain's pre-frontal lobes develop in children.


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Tough Choices
Princeton researchers study the brain's of test subjects making tough ethical decisions to determine which part of the brain is the seat of morality.


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