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How Does Daredevil's Sonar Really Work?
Pop culture is full of superheroes with incredible powers, especially in the summer. But none of these are as amazing as the superpower within your brain.
Snakes on the Brain
Serpents are a storehouse of fascinating neuroscience.
Whale Brains Provide Clues to Cognition
Neuroscientists have long understood that the cerebellum is important for controlling bodily movements, by making them more fluid and coordinated, but researchers have also long appreciated that cerebellum does much more.
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What Color is Distress?
Social media has been on fire with a debate – not over ISIS, healthcare or global warming – but over the perceived color of a dress.
Brian Williams ‘False Memory’ a Neuroscience Perspective
NBC News anchor Brian Williams apologized for his erroneous account of being aboard a helicopter forced to make an emergency landing after being hit by enemy fire while reporting on the Iraq war in 2003.
Poisoned Synapses not Crocodile Bile the Likely Killer of Mozambique Beer Drinkers
On January 11, 2015 news swept the globe reporting that scores of people died and 200 were sickened by drinking beer poisoned with crocodile bile in Mozambique.
An Introduction From the New Editor in Chief of BrainFacts.org
Hello and welcome to BrainFacts.org. It is a great pleasure to introduce myself as the site’s new Editor-in-Chief.
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Neuroscience of Under the Skin Starring Scarlett Johansson
In the eerie science fiction film, Under the Skin, starring Scarlett Johansson as an alien vixen clothed in human skin, roaming the earth in search of single men for nefarious purposes, a turning point comes when she offers a hooded man on a dark road a ride in her vehicle.
Big Brain Stories of 2014
As we turn the page on 2014, here’s a list of some of the year’s highlights in neuroscience.
The Absurdity of “Medical Marijuana”
Marijuana use is legal in many states for medical purposes, most of them dealing with neurological conditions (pain, epilepsy, tremor, multiple sclerosis, and many others). From the perspective of a neuroscientist researcher, the situation with respect to “medical marijuana” is absurd.
How Is the Brain like a Guitar? Hint: It is All About Rhythm
Typically we are introduced to the nervous system by analogy to an electrical circuit, like a door bell or a telephone line carrying a signal rapidly over long distances to activate a specific process.
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Alzheimer’s Awareness Interview: Gary Landreth
Dana Alliance member Gary Landreth, Ph.D., is a professor of neurosciences and neurology and the director of the Alzheimer Research Laboratory at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
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