Study of the function of the living human brain is difficult because __________.
A. it is difficult to induce brain damage in humans
B. brain damage is uniform from case to case
C. researchers have to wait for the natural death of a brain-damaged human to verify the location of the brain damage
D. microscopes cannot resolve fine detail in human brains
Answer: C
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