[PsychToday] Learning about Allison’s Brain

I heard a pretty remarkable story last week about a woman named Allison. Allison is a retired music teacher—a highly decorated retired music teacher, too. In 2011, Allison was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm, an enlargement of one of the arteries in her brain. An enlargement so big it was the size of a plum. Allison underwent brain surgery to clip the aneurysm, then endured several years of therapy to regain her cognitive, motor, and communication functioning…

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