Gifted+Hands

**What do you know about your brain?[[image:image.cgi.jpg]]**

 * Can you live with only half of your brain?
 * Where does learning take place?
 * What part of your brain controls muscles? vision? hearing?
 * Do you ever stop learning?
 * Can you chose "brain foods"?
 * How does water affect your brain?
 * How does sleep change your learning?
 * How does information store as "learning"?

Read the life of Ben Carson Pediatric Neurosurgeon to learn fascinating stories about the brain! http://www.hopkinsneuro.org/team_member.cfm/expert/Benjamin_Carson
 * Biostats on Ben Carson, brain surgeon**:

http://www.middleschoolscience.org/blog/2007/01/phineas-gage.html
 * Phineas Gage, brain injuries:**

Read the book!
 * Could you survive this?

Academy of Achievement Interview:** http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/car1int-1

http://www.drbencarson.com/
 * Ben Carson's WebPage**

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/press/1998/JANUARY/980115.HTM
 * Tools: The Brain Bench**

Bijani Twins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladan_and_Laleh_Bijani http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,965546,00.html (no pictures, the pictures rights may have been sold before the surgery to pay for the medical costs.) http://www.doctorbencarson.com/2008/06/doctor-ben-carson-surgical-team-binder.html
 * Patients:**
 * The Binder Twins:** [[image:binder_twins.jpg]]

Movies: =Cuba Gooding Jr. To Play= =Dr. Ben Carson In 'Gifted Hands'=

http://www.blackvoices.com/blogs/2008/08/29/cuba-gooding-jr-to-play-dr-ben-carson-in-gifted-hands/

Faith, an important part of Ben Carson's life, PBS [|video] story

http://www.twinstuff.com/conjoined.htm
 * [[image:eng_and_chang.jpg align="left" caption="North Carolina Twins: Eng and Chang"]]Famous Cojoined Twins with additional websites:**