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The Wiring Behind Your Reflexes

It doesn’t take brainpower to react to sudden danger; just a bit of spine.

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Best Foot Forward: Recovering from Motor Injuries

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Daniel Wolpert: The Real Reason for Brains

Neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert starts from a surprising premise: the brain evolved, not to think or feel, but to control movement.

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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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Some Ground-Dwelling Dinos Had the Brains to Fly

Researchers discover that even non-flying dinosaurs had brains with the motor and visual capabilities necessary to take wing.

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Keep in Touch

Studying how nerve cells and muscles communicate may shed light on neuromuscular diseases.

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Testing Your Reflexes

What can a ticklish turtle teach us about how the spinal cord is organized?

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Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me

Studying the nerve cells that alert fruit flies to danger may one day help scientists better understand diseases such as Parkinson’s disease and autism.

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What Color is Tuesday? Exploring Synesthesia

What if the number 7 tasted like chocolate? What if Monday was purple? This is what life is like for someone with synesthesia. Learn more about this fascinating neurological trait with this video.

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Critical Communication for Movement

Motor neurons are crucial for movement, from the simplest step to the most complex dance.

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Sensing Movement

The primate retina passes information about rapid movement to the brain.

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Why are some people left-handed?

There are likely advantages to having both left- and right-handed individuals in a population.

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Sensing Space or Moving Muscles?

Scientists are rethinking the role of nerve endings once thought to be involved in providing spatial information to the brain.

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