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The development of human intelligence can’t be accounted for by the size of the brain’s frontal lobe alone, researchers at…
Infants develop the ability to consciously process their environment as early as five months of age, according to a study…
Scientists have found a way to control the reward centre of the brain, using a miniature wireless device that emits light…
Scientists have developed a new technique to study the brain, by making it transparent. Using a post-mortem mouse brain…
Your brain might be sending you mixed messages about who’s really staring at you. A new study has found that the human brain…
Do you ever wake up with a raging hangover and picture the row of brain cells that you suspect have have started to decay? Or wonder whether that final glass of wine was too much for those tiny cells…
Recently, I wrote a sceptical article for The Conversation on the subject of new proposals for computer mapping of the brain. The two top contenders are the European Human Brain Project (HBP - which has…
In the past month, we have seen two major announcements of huge projects to map the brain – the European Human Brain Project (HBP) and the Obama Brain Activity Map (BAM). What you may not have noticed…
Brain circuitry may make it more difficult for obese people to lose weight, researchers have found. Research has shown that…
Electric stimulation to certain areas of the brain has been used to release mu-opioid, an opiate-like substance that alters…
If I had been asked 15 years ago to write a short piece about what the different parts of the brain did, it would have been a fairly straightforward task. Not any more. Over the last 15 years, the methods…
The human brain can immediately tell whether someone is being intentionally or accidentally harmed. Adults taking part in…
The human brain can only process four chunks of information before confusion sets in. Results of a new analysis contradict…
The fly larva brain’s ability to process visual information can make up for low visual input. Researchers discovered that…
The left hemisphere of the brain processes rapidly changing sounds, while the right side processes slower sounds. When you…
Sleep disruptions could be an early sign of Alzheimer’s disease, researchers say. Studying mice models, researchers found…
Depleting the biomarker of one of the most lethal form of brain tumours in adults could prevent its progression and relapse…
Research has found that people with blood sugar levels at the high end of the normal range are at the same risk of brain…
A new drug could prevent secondary damage from a traumatic brain injury, research has found. While the initial injury may…
Principales colaboradores
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Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian es Amigo de The Conversation.Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, University of Cambridge
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Senior lecturer, University of Adelaide
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Penn State
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Cognitive Neurosciences, UCL
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Neuroscience, University of Sussex
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Emeritus Professor in Animal Behaviour, University of New England
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Senior Research Fellow, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Honorary (Professorial Fellow) at the Centre for Neuroscience, The University of Melbourne
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Director, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
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Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
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Senior Data Scientist, University of Technology Sydney
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor of Health Science, Curtin University
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Lecturer in Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Physics, University of Sheffield
