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Is My Brain Working Normally?

Friday, 06 April 2012

Kaine Korzekwa

College & Campus

A tumor could have caused the famous university shootings of August 1, 1966.

In this video, Travel Channel's "Hidden City" host Marcus Sakey undergoes an fMRI with UT neuroscientist Russell Poldrack to see how his brain activity stacks up against what Charles Whitman's brain activity could have possibly been like. Whitman is known at the "UT Sniper." He killed 16 people from the university tower on August 1, 1966.

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Kaine Korzekwa

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Kaine was the science writing/communications intern for the College of Natural Sciences from 2011 to 2014. He graduated from UT with degrees in biology and journalism in May 2014 and is now a graduate student in the Department of Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Follow him on Twitter @KaineK.

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