Neuroscientist Twitter Battle!

A group of neuroscientists did battle in an epic Twitter Rap Free-for-All. Check it! [Scientific terms explained in brackets.]

DEAN BURNETT: My flow is so powerful it’s basically exponential
Yours don't make the threshold for a single action potential. 

[An "action potential" is the signal sent by a neuron.]
 

LOUIS: I speak hard truth my words are metallic,
Your rhymes are brainless like an acephalic.  


[Acephalic = without a head]


DB: If your rhymes taste metallic then I hate to confuse ya
But that's a symptom of dysgeusia.
 

[Dysgeusia is a distortion of taste perception.]
 

LOUIS: You think that scares me? Here's something to amaze ya, 
Your weak comprehension makes me diagnose aphasia.
 

[Aphasia describes a variety of communication disorders.]
 

DB: You repeat and add nothing like a Celine Dion ballad. 
Basically demonstrating classic word salad. 


[See Sarah Palin.]
 

LOUIS: Celine's a low blow I expect no better, 
 

From a weak-ass rhymer who's cephalically wetter. 


[“Water on the brain” reference.]
 

DB: You want to step to me, like a fly in a spider's parlor?
I'll make you so scared you'll rip out your amygdala.
 

[Removal of the amygdala typically removes the fear response.]
 

AIDAN HORNER: You don't know left from right, I'm fricking awesome
Your rhymes so disconnected, someone's cut your corpus callosum.
 

[The connection between left and right brain hemispheres.]
 

SALLY PRICE: Ya hissing & dissing like a pair of morons; 
It's clear the spirochaetes ate all your neurons.
 

[Spirochaetes are a bacteria that can infect the brain.]
 

DB: Morons & neurons don't rhyme, I'm afraid. 
If your flow was a cat, it'd have to be spayed.
 

SALLY PRICE: You stutter like you got dysdiadokinesis; 
I'm puttin’ it down to your tertiary syphilis.
 

[Dysdiadokinesis - impaired ability to perform alternating movements.]
 

DB: My words are quite clear as anyone can see. 
That you struggle to read them suggests maybe ADHD.

This is a shortened version of the battle; here’s the whole thing! ‪