One day in 1976, psychiatrist Philip May asked his colleague at the
University of California, Los Angeles a peculiar question: 'Why don't
woodpeckers have headaches?' May specialized in treating schizophrenia,
but proposed a radical shift: How, he wanted to know, might an animal
that repeatedly slams its head into a tree trunk at 16mph keep from
getting brain damage?
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