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How Neurons Communicate

If your body were a ship, your brain would be the command center.

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How Your Brain Processes Information

Memories of failed attempts and false starts while learning to ride a bike may remain, but it likely all feels natural now. For that, you can thank the intricate circuits comprising your nervous system.

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Your Complex Brain

Our brain and nervous systems are always at work, helping to balance the body’s many intricate systems.

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Debunked: Do Neurons Die as We Get Older?

Neuroscientist John Morrison explains what really happens to our brain cells as we age.

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The Short Answer: What Is a Brain Circuit?

Your brain’s 86 billion neurons wire up to form circuits. But just what is a circuit?

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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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Crafting the Message

The axon initial segment helps shape the messages sent by your brain cells.

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Designing a Robot

As a Neuroscientist I want to understand how the brain works. A frequent exercise is to imagine building a robot.

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Hearing Red, Tasting Blue: When the Senses Mix

Learn about the neuroscience behind synesthesia in this video which won first place in the 2016 Brain Awareness Video Contest.

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The Brain’s Stop Signs

Web-like structures surround brain cells helping keep brain activity in check.

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Making the Connection

A catalog of all of the connections in the human brain may be possible with new technological advances.

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Ectoplasm Ghostbusters to spooky twitching nerves

“He slimed me!” Venkman spits out in disgust, writhing in sticky ectoplasm in a memorable scene from the 1984 movie Ghostbusters.

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