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The blood-brain barrier once stopped medication from reaching the brain. Researchers have found their way through.

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No Fear

In an interesting article in the magazine Nautilus, J.B. MacKinnon, reports that a brain scan (fMRI) of free solo climber, Alex Honnold’s brain explains why he is so willing to risk his life to climb rocks without a rope.

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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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Are FMRI Data Analysis Methods Reliable?

There's been a lot of discussion on social media of a recent paper in PNAS by Anders Eklund, Tom Nichols, and Hans Knutsson. Cluster failure: Why fMRI inferences for spatial extent have inflated false-positive rates Even Science magazine felt they needed to address it.

Tracking Dinosaur Intelligence: What Fossil Footprints Reveal about the Dinosaur’s Brain

Dr. Jerald Harris is Professor of Geology and Director of Paleontology at Dixie State College, and an expert in the esoteric science of identifying fossil footprints (ichnology). From these empty impressions in stone, he brings to life the extinct animals that made them millions of years before man first walked the earth.

The Neuroscience of Gaming, Part II: Upgrading our Diagnostic Toolbox with Video Game Technology

Older adults with cognitive impairment have limited options for treatment. But, as neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley discusses, video games may be an effective way to enhance cognition.

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Developing Next-Generation Tools for Imaging the Eye

The National Eye Institute’s Audacious Goals Initiative is taking the next step to restoring vision through regeneration of the optic nerve and retina.

National Eye Institute
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What are Computational and Systems Neuroscience?

One of the fundamental questions motivating neuroscientists is to understand the relationship between brain activity and lived experience: how the different parts of the brain work together to produce the key ingredients for behavior: memory, feeling, thinking and imagination.

The Whole Brain Atlas

This site has dozens of real images of the brain to help you learn how disease affects the brain.

Harvard Medical School

Scanning the Brain

Learn about some of the major technology used to study our brains, from PET scans to fMRIs.

Nancy Kanwisher: A Neural Portrait of the Human Mind

Nancy Kanwisher shares what she and her colleagues have learned: The brain is made up of both highly specialized components and general-purpose "machinery."

TED
18 min

Feeling Our Way: The Challenge of Studying Emotion and the Brain

While scientists are learning how important emotional input is to nearly every aspect of cognition, behavior, and disease, understanding how that works is a tangled puzzle.

The Dana Foundation

Brief: CRISPR and the Latest Research on Cutting Edge Gene-Editing Techniques

Genetics experts, medical advocates, and lawmakers gathered on Capitol Hill to discuss the latest research on cutting edge gene-editing techniques.

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3D Brain

An interactive brain map that you can rotate in a three-dimensional space.

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3D Brain

An interactive brain map that you can rotate in a three-dimensional space.

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