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Many of the drugs used by neuroscientists are derived from toxic plants and venomous animals (such as snakes, spiders, snails, and puffer fish).
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Children of people with alcoholism are more inclined to drink alcohol or use hard drugs. In fact, they are 400 times more likely to use hard drugs than those who do not have a family history of alcohol addiction.
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The National Institutes of Health have supported research into acupuncture. This has shown that acupuncture significantly reduced pain associated with osteoarthritis of the knee, when used as a complement to conventional therapies.
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If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.
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Once thought to have neurofibromatosis, Joseph Merrick (also known as "the elephant man") is now, in retrospect, thought by clinical experts to have had Proteus syndrome. This endocrine disease causes continued and abnormal growth of the bones, muscles, skin, and so on and can become completely debilitating with severe deformities occurring anywhere on the body.
Siberian Yupik woman holding walrus tusks
Edgar Degas, After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself.
Woman (formerly a.k.a. the Venus of Willendorf), Lower Austria.
A Pokot married woman, Kenya.
Pulling a skewer through chocolate and raspberry-sauce dots to create a border of hearts
The Beauty of a Woman