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The physical activity and social connection that take place at recess help children be more engaged once back in the classroom.
From the archive: new research helps unpick clues about the brain’s ability to change its structure. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Fetal brains are changing rapidly over the course of pregnancy, but so are the brains of mothers-to-be. Neuroscience research shows one way worry can start taking hold – and a simple way to help.
Plus, how researchers have discovered a biological switch that can turn neuroplasticity on and off in the brain. Listen to episode 13 of The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Smelling odours that aren’t there can be annoying. It can also be a sign of a serious underlying condition.
Adolescents have important developmental work to do. Despite what worried grownups think, taking needless risks isn’t the goal for teens. Being risky is part of exploring and learning about the world.
Harmful proteins spread between connected neurons much like flu spreads through a social network. The finding may provide future opportunities for halting Alzheimer’s.
A new initiative called the International Brain Laboratory is tackling this fundamental mystery of neuroscience in an unusual way.
Hollywood pushes a fantasy version of what neuroscience can do in the courtroom. But the field does have real benefits to offer, right now: solid evidence on what would improve prisons.
Baby’s brains have special activity to help them develop – now researchers have found where some of this happens.
Brain games, learning languages, rowing? Beware of snake oil salesman claiming we know it all.
A strange delusion which may have its origins in damage to a particular process in the brain, is also one that can help us to understand how we recognise each other.
Repetitive patterns from windows, blinds and stairs are really uncomfortable to look at.
Terrifying accounts of surgery 200 years ago remind us how far general anaesthesia has come. Yet we still know little about how anaesthetics alter consciousness.
The human brain develops rapidly between the ages of 14 and 24.
Recent research suggests running allows the brain to rest and reduces the need for sleep.
Once you’ve been dishonest, it’s harder to stop – here’s why.
We might think our technological innovations are driving us towards a cyborg future, but is it the brain doing all the work?
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Professor of Psychology, University of Essex
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Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, University of Cambridge
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Postdoctoral Fellow, UO Institute of Neuroscience and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Oregon
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Editor and Co-Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
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Investigations Editor, Insights, The Conversation
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Associate Professor, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders & School of Psychology, The University of Western Australia
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Professor and Head of Epigenetics and Neural Plasticity, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
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Professor, Southern Cross University
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Skye McDonald is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, UNSW Sydney
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Professor in Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London
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Penn State
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Assistant Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Utah
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Professor of Physics, University of Sheffield
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