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Are You Taking Care of Your Brain Health?
October is Health Literacy Month. Learn more about how you can maintain a healthy brain.
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Making and Breaking Connections in the Brain
The links between nerve cells, called synapses, allow us to learn and adapt, and hold clues to conditions such as autism, schizophrenia, and more.
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Synapse
Neurons talk to each other at junctions called synapses.
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The Search for the Engram: Where Memory Lives in the Brain
For more than 100 years, neuroscientists have searched for memory’s physical form. Finding it would answer philosophical and scientific questions about our minds.
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How are Synapses Like Trees? An Introduction to Synaptic Pruning
Like a gardener trimming the excess branches of a tree, synaptic pruning clears away unneeded connections between neurons.
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The Action Potential: The Brain's Most Efficient Game of Telephone
Electrical signals power the connections between the brain’s billions of neurons.
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Synapse Elimination: There Can Be Only One
A battle for the prize of the last connection standing.
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How Neurons Communicate
If your body were a ship, your brain would be the command center.
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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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The Short Answer: What is a Synapse?
There’s a lot that happens between neurons. Neuroscientist John Morrison explains what happens in the space that neurons learn.
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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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Highlighting the Synapse
When neurons meet, they have great chemistry.
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