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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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A New Relationship Between Humans and Machines
Scientists are exploring how neural-digital technologies can expand the human experience. This endeavor raises crucial ethical questions.
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How AI and Machine Learning Can Serve Humanity
AI expert Fei-Fei Li discusses how deep-learning machines can support the human experience — not replace it.
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How Poverty Shapes a Child's Mind and Brain
A growing body of research now shows that poverty changes the way children’s brains develop, shrinking parts of the brain essential for memory, planning, and decision-making.
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How Does Income Affect Childhood Brain Development?
Have you wondered the impact socioeconomic status can have on children's developing brains?
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Death Knell for Trigger Warnings?
While trigger warnings may seem helpful, research shows this may not be the case.
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How Neuroscience Informs (Behavioral) Economics
With insights from neuroscience, behavioral economics research seeks to understand why people are often predictably irrational when it comes to economic decision-making.
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The Depression Gender Gap
Around the world, women are more likely than men to be diagnosed with depression.
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How Neuroscience Impacts Society
Advancements in neuroscience have answered some big questions about ourselves — they have also posed even bigger questions about our society.
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Answering Your Questions About Solitary Confinement
Experts in neuroscience and the law answer questions about solitary confinement and how it affects the brain.
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Solitary Confinement: Psychological and Neurobiological Insights into Isolation
This panel discusses the implications of solitary confinement with a neurobiologist, a physician, a lawyer, and an individual held in solitary for 29 years.
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Using Neuroscience to Fight Solitary Confinement in Court and in Print
Jules Lobel has spent years using neuroscience studies in court to argue and prove that solitary confinement should be considered cruel and unusual punishment.
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Understanding the Effects of Solitary Confinement on the Brain
Robert King spent 29 years in solitary confinement for a crime he didn’t commit. He was freed in 2001 when a court reversed his conviction — but the effects of his isolation linger.
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