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EyeWire
Play a game to map the brain with other online citizen-neuroscientists.
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Read Montague: What We're Learning From 5,000 Brains
Mice, bugs and hamsters are no longer the only way to study the brain. Functional MRI (fMRI) allows scientists to map brain activity in living, breathing, decision-making human beings.
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Brain Trauma
See for yourself what happens to the brain during a head injury. This short video is a great resource to enhance your lesson plans.
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Brain-machine Interface: A Multi-disciplinary Approach Shows Progress
Apostolos P. Georgopoulos, M.D., Ph.D., discusses the large effort expended in developing and testing BMIs and the ultimate goal of long-term safe and useful application of BMI technology to humans.
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Connectivity
Do lost connections between brain regions guarantee impaired function? Imaging techniques show normal functional activity in people with missing links, spurring scientists to say: not necessarily.
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Image of the Week: Primate Photocreceptor Cones
Neurons in the eye turn light into electrical signals. How and where signals travel between these cells is thought to affect vision.
Kinds of Research
Scientists who study the brain do so for many reasons. For some, the opportunity to study the most complex living structure in the known universe is itself an exciting quest. So much is still unknown about brain function and development.
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Illuminating the Brain
The discovery of a protein that gives jellyfish their colorful glow revolutionized scientists' view of the nervous system, allowing them to add color to what had only been seen in black and white.
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What is transcranial magnetic stimulation, and what is it used for?
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a method for electrically stimulating the brain from the outside of the skull.
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Do cell phones cause brain cancer?
Over the past two decades there have been many studies aimed at detecting a risk of brain cancer associated with cell phone use.
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Memory: From One Patient to a Breakthrough
A major breakthrough in understanding how the brain accomplishes learning and memory began with the study of a person known by his initials, H.M.
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Language: An Overview
One of the most prominent human abilities is language, a complex system involving many components, including sensory-motor functions and memory systems.
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