Cristiano Ronaldo heading a football.
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A single session of football heading can temporarily impair memory. So what does that mean for children with developing brains?
MRI of grey matter with intracranial electrodes resting on the medial frontal cortex.
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Our brains may be slower at making decisions than computers, but there is a massive evolutionary benefit to this tardiness.
Feeling sleepy.
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Feeling tired? Not yourself? Here’s what’s happening inside your head.
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An important cell function called endocytosis is revealing a lot about how Alzheimer’s develops.
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While AI seems unstoppable, our improved understanding of human brains is levelling the playing field for now.
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We might think our technological innovations are driving us towards a cyborg future, but is it the brain doing all the work?
Our brain’s ability to strengthen or make new connections to adapt and change allows us to acquire new skills.
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If you are a ballet dancer or gymnast, a watch-maker or surgeon, your brain connections in the motor system will differ depending on your skills for fine movements in different parts of your body.
Your brain picks up more than you’re aware of.
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It has long been claimed that subliminal messages work. Now two studies have set the record straight.
Most functions attributed to the soul can be explained by the brain.
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Many people believe they have a soul. But for psychologists, who study behaviour, it is not so much that souls do not exist, it is that there is no need for them.
It’s easy to tell the direction of the human gaze.
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Is someone looking at you or are you just imagining things? A neuroscientist explains.
Forgetting limitations.
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The best prosthetics feel more like the real thing.
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Tiny particles of a mineral known as magnetite may be causing havoc with our health.
A team of American researchers have mapped the cerebral cortex into 180 distinct regions.
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Neuroscientists analysed the brains of 210 healthy young adults. The result was a modern atlas of the human brain, 97 areas of which have never been described before.
The stuff around you.
Environment plays an important role in how you remember things.
What makes your brain go all-in on what it thinks you’re seeing?
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How does your brain deal with the ambiguous and variable visual information your eyes collect? Neuroscientists think it bets on what’s the most likely version of reality.
Who’s making the decisions around here?
White House (Pete Souza)
Different animals and different behaviors rely on various forms and combinations of ‘government’ to carry out desired actions.
The Australian lungfish has a bigger brain than you might think.
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To understand how some creatures evolved, you need to see how their brain developed over millions of years. That’s now possible thanks to some clever use of scanning technology.
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Transhumanism sees mind uploading as the ultimate destiny of humanity, but it’s actually a dangerous distraction.
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It may prove to be a useful diagnostic tool for brain disorders.
Tinkering with the brain to ease the mind.
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Will a bit of brain stimulation to lift our spirits ahead of a night out be commonplace in the future?