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Major anatomical structure overlooked for decades by researchers

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"This game we call reality doesn't always have to alter our memories when it does a retcon of itself. But since not doing that would be at the expense of making the priesthood of any current story arc appear stupid or nonobservant or closed-minded, it is surely an option which the reality program wants to avoid 99% of the time." --Chan Peccolo

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/...une-system

EXCERPT: The discovery of vessels, nestled just beneath the skull, overturns decades of textbook teaching and could pave the way for new approaches to treating brain diseases. The scientists behind the discovery described their surprise at having uncovered a major anatomical structure that until now had been entirely overlooked.

“These vessels were just not supposed to be there based on what we know,” said Jonathan Kipnis, who led the work at the University of Virginia. “I thought the body was mapped and that these discoveries ended somewhere around the middle of the last century. But apparently they have not.”

The finding could provide a firm biological basis for growing evidence that mental health and the state of the immune system are closely intertwined....
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One thing that occurred to me is that might be something that hurts during a headache.
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