cognitive neuroscience
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Brain Info
BrainInfo helps one identify structures in the brain. One can either search by a structure name or locate the structure in a brain atlas and get information such as its location in the classical brain hierarchy, images of the s...
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The Search for Me
With the help of a hammer-wielding scientist, Jennifer Aniston and a general anaesthetic, Professor Marcus du Sautoy goes in search of answers to one of science's greatest mysteries: how do we know who we are?
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Cool Runnings: Notable websites for consciousness science
Consciousness science is highly interdisciplinary, and Cool Runnings will reflect this, featuring sites from all over the pedagogical map.
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Healing the ‘Split’ between science and the humanities.
It's high time to heal the split between the "Two Cultures."
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A Conversation on the Neuroethics of Deep Brain Stimulation
In this webcast provided by the Dana Foundation, Drs. Philip Campbell, Joseph Fins, Jonathan Moreno and Helen Mayberg discussed the ethical considerations of using deep brain stimulation. The topics covered in this interesting ...
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Addiction and Brain Circuits
From Brain Briefings: Humans have always struggled with addictions to mind-altering substances. Yet, only in the past few decades have neuroscientists begun to understand precisely how these substances affect the brain — and ...
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Scientists find way to map brain’s complexity
From Reuters: Scientists say they have moved a step closer to developing a computer model of the brain after finding a way to map both the connections and functions of nerve cells in the brain together for the first time. In a ...
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Language and the Brain: What Makes Us Human
From Brain Briefings: No other species on the planet uses language or writing — a mystery that remains unsolved even after thousands of years of research. Now neuroscientists are taking advantage of powerful new ways to peer ...
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Using light to probe the brain’s self-repair after a stroke
Anne McIlroy of The Globe and Mail has written a nice article on how researchers are using optogenetics to study how the brain repairs itself after a stroke. Click here to read the article. Click here for videos on optogenetics.
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Being rejected a real pain, brain images show
From CBC News: The pain of rejection is more than just a figure of speech: regions of the brain that respond to physical pain overlap with those that react to social rejection, a brain imaging study shows. The study used brain...