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Pioneer Cells Blaze Trails in the Young Brain

These trailblazers strike out into various parts of the brain, laying down axons as they go.

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Dumping the Brain's Waste

Scientists may have found the brain’s hidden waste disposal system.

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What Your Brain Does When You're Doing Nothing

Just because you’re taking a break doesn’t mean your brain gets to clock out.

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Holding Your Brain in the Palm of Your Hand

How would it feel to hold a model of your own brain?

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Navigating Through the Entorhinal Cortex

The entorhinal cortex gives us memory, the perception of time, and helps us navigate.

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Pioneer Cells Blaze Trails in the Young Brain

These trailblazers strike out into various parts of the brain, laying down axons as they go.

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The 'Right-Brained' Myth

This video shows how the right-and-left-brained belief came to be and why it is a myth.

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4 min

The Anatomy of Emotions

It’s hard to describe what an emotion is — let alone how many of them there are or whether everyone experiences the same ones. But we do know this: emotions arise from activity in distinct parts of the brain.

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The Nervous System

What does the nervous system do and how does it work?

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Forming the Sciatic Nerve

Individual neurons bundle together to form the sciatic nerve, a superhighway running from your legs to your spine.

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Sleep, Uninterrupted

Disrupting circadian rhythms is linked to mood disorders, and chronic illnesses. Neuroscientists are teasing apart how.

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Finding the Right Place

The brain made up of around 86 billion neurons, with trillions of connections between them. How does this come to be?

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It Takes Two Hemispheres to Talk

Having a conversation requires give and take.

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