What Songbirds Tell Us About Human Nature
Every once in a while, we hear of amazing scientific feats about how some new drug successfully reduces weight without dieting or exercise in monkeys, or how scientists slowed aging in worms and...
View ArticleHearing is Believing: Cells that Enable Hearing after Birth
The sense of hearing is a critical part of how we experience life and the world around us. It is so important, in fact, that the ears are fully formed and functional when we are born. Despite its...
View ArticleGenetic Tricks To Reverse Schizophrenic Symptoms
The human brain continues to develop and form new connections from birth until as late as the mid-20s. During this time, billions of connections are made and broken as the brain develops the...
View ArticleMyth or Fact? The brain forms inside-out.
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View ArticleMyth or Fact? Synapses increase twentyfold during the first month of life.
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View ArticleSmells Like Teen Synapses: A Look Inside Adolescent Brains and Behaviors
“I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry,...
View ArticleSarah-Jayne Blakemore Discusses the Mysterious Workings of the Adolescent Brain
What brain regions are employed when we interact with other people? Cognitive neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore explains the “social brain” in her TED talk and sheds light on the complex networks...
View ArticleMyth or Fact? 10% of your genes describe the organization of the brain.
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View ArticleMyth or Fact? Folic acid is important for embryonic brain development.
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