In the mid-1990s, child psychiatrist linkurl:Karen Norberg;http://healthpolicy.wustl.edu/medadmin/chpolicy.nsf/0ee53e934810efcd86256a94005e5f7d/bba6ed2708d8524a862574800050e79a?OpenDocument was working the night shift in a hospital emergency room, and she was struggling to stay attentive during the frequent evening lulls. So she turned to a tried and tested hobby for whiling away long hours: knitting. She wasn't fashioning sweaters or darning socks, however. Instead, she harked back to her training in neuroscience. "I decided that a particularly absurd thing to do would be to knit a brain," she said.
Once she started, she couldn't stop. The knitting migrated from a late-night time-killer to an after-work obsession. "I would rush home from work and say, 'Oh, I think I'll work on the corpus callosum tonight,'" Norberg, now a research instructor in psychiatry at Washington University's Center for Health Policy...
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