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Hello Brain! Easy read guides

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Text reads: What is a neuron. Your body is made up of lots of tiny cells (picture of a body and a cluster of cells). Inside your brain you have lots and lots of special cells called neurons (picture of a brain and a neuron).

Easy read: what is a neuron?
 

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Text reading 'Making a map of neurons. You have millions and millions of neurons inside your brain. (Cartoon of a brain and neuron cells). Each neuron works together with up to thousands of other neurons. This means messages cna travel in lots of different ways around your brain. (Cartoon of neurons connected to other neurons."

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Text reads: "About Santiago Ramon y Cajal. Santiago Ramon y Cajal was a scientist. He was born in Spain in 1852. We call him Cajal for short. Cajal looked at brains. He drew pictures of things he could see."

Easy read: about Santiago Ramon y Cajal

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Text reading: 'How scientists look at brains. When scientists look at brains, they mostly look at a scan of someone's brain or a brain that has come from a person who has died."

Easy read: how scientists look at brains

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Text reading "Patterns of neurons. Neurons do not line up neatly inside your brain. Instead they make criss-cross patterns. It looks a bit like a maze."

Easy read: patterns of neurons

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Text reading 'New ways to make maps of the brain. Neurons are really tiny. There are millions and millions of neurons squished up together inside your brain. It is really hard for scientists to look at neurons inside the brain."

Easy read: new ways to make maps of the brain

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Text reading, 'How you understand the world. You brain helps you to understand the world around you. To uunderstand things, your brain uses things you can see, hear, smell, feel or taste."

Easy read: how you understand the world around you

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Text reading 'Your changing brain. Our brains are changing all the time. Learning and experiencing new things causes neurons to work together in different ways. You also grow new neurons."

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Text reading, 'What happens to your brain when you are asleep. We spend a big amount of our lives asleep. When you go to sleep, you do not.."

Easy read: what happens to your brain when you are asleep

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Text reading, 'Growing neurons. Before you were born, your brain grew more than 2 hundred thousand neurons every minute. After you were born, you had to learn lots of things. Thing liks eating, walking and talking."

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Text reading, 'How being pregnant affects your brain. Hormones are things that send messages from your brain to the rest of your body. They help your body to work well. When you are pregnant and after you have given birth, your hormones work really hard."

Easy read: how being pregnant affects your brain

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Text reading, 'what happens to you brain when you get older. When you get older, your brain starts to change. It starts to shrink. Some of your neurons start to die."

Easy read: what happens to your brain when you get older

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