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Neuroeconomics: Making Big and Small Decisions
Behind every economic decision you make is a host of biases, hormone fluctuations, and firing neurons.
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Neuroscience Takes the Stand
Understanding the brain science behind human behavior can help us create a fairer legal system.
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Why Do People Give? That Is the Billion-Dollar Question
Researchers are studying the chemicals and structures behind charitable brains.
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Neuroeconomics: Making Big and Small Decisions
Behind every economic decision you make is a host of biases, hormone fluctuations, and firing neurons.
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When Mice Can’t Answer Questions, Neuroscience Turns to Primates
Researchers from around the world met in Washington, D.C. to explore the relevance and ethics for using non-human primates in research.
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Uploading the Brain
Explore the concept of “mind uploading”. How would something like a mind upload really work?
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Will America Be a Land Where Only the Rich Get PhDs?
Two bills are under consideration by congress that could slow the pace of scientific research if signed into law.
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Put Working Memory to Work in Learning
How did working memory earn the title "the brain's workhorse"?
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Should Scientists Be Political?
The March for Science will occur April 22, 2017 across the nation and the world, with a significant turnout expected in Washington D.C.
Art, Music, and the Brain: Creative Approaches to Community Health
Ping Ho, founder and director of UCLArts and Healing, describes how art education is a matter of public health.
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Concussion: Players’ Experience and the Future of Research
A former NFL player and a roundtable of scientists discuss concussions and traumatic brain injuries.
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Military Related Traumatic Brain Injury and the Future of Research
Lisa Brenner, an associate professor at the University of Colorado, talks about traumatic brain injury in military personnel and symptoms that many people experience when they've had a head injury.
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Neurolaw: Combining Neuroscience and Criminal Justice
As neurolaw grows at remarkable pace, judges are still determining how, whether, and when to support brain science in the courtroom.
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