When your well-meaning mom sends you an email telling you that SLS causes cancer or Propylene Glycol causes brain damage, it can make even the most caviler chemist nervous.

当你好心的妈妈给你发送电子邮件，告诉你SLS导致癌症，或者丙二醇导致大脑损伤，即使最吹毛求疵的化学家也会紧张。

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In fact, the brain has an astonishing ability to rebound from damage - even from something as devastating as the loss of sight or hearing.

事实上，即使是毁灭性的失去视听觉后，大脑仍有着能惊人的恢复能力。

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By studying patients who emerge into consciousness after years in limbo, Schiff and Giacino have shown that the brain can sometimes fix itself even decades after damage.

通过对那些经过多年后仍能恢复意识的病人的研究，希夫和吉亚奎洛指出有的大脑甚至在受损20年以后仍能自我修复。

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She added that while most treatments for Alzheimer's targeted the disease's early stages, this research showed that even after major brain damage it was still possible to improve learning and memory.

BBC: NEWS | Health | Scientists 'reverse' memory loss

These drugs may help in childhood learning disability, in the memory loss with ageing and even in recovery from brain damage.

BBC: Scientists boost memory power

Officials have said it is "just a matter of time" before a child is left with serious and permanent complications, such as eye disorders, deafness or brain damage, or even dies.

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